. The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women. Fig. 630. Cross Section of the Fallopian Tube, near the Fim-briated Extremity. (Penrose, after Beye&—Diseases of Women.) PATHOLOGY 691 ACUTE PELVIC INFLAMMATION. The inflammatory process may be in the Fallopian tubes (salpingitis) or in theovaries (oophoritis) or in the peritoneum (pelvic peritonitis) or in the connectivetissue (pelvic cellulitis). ETIOLOGY and PATHOLOGY. The cause of acute pelvic inflammation is infection. The infection may be withthe ordinary pus germs (staphylococcus and streptococcus) or with the ev

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. The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women. Fig. 630. Cross Section of the Fallopian Tube, near the Fim-briated Extremity. (Penrose, after Beye&—Diseases of Women.) PATHOLOGY 691 ACUTE PELVIC INFLAMMATION. The inflammatory process may be in the Fallopian tubes (salpingitis) or in theovaries (oophoritis) or in the peritoneum (pelvic peritonitis) or in the connectivetissue (pelvic cellulitis). ETIOLOGY and PATHOLOGY. The cause of acute pelvic inflammation is infection. The infection may be withthe ordinary pus germs (staphylococcus and streptococcus) or with the every case of acute pelvic inflammation can be traced to infectionfrom labor, from abortion, from instrumentation or from gonorrhoea. The fact thatnearly every case of pelvic inflammation is due to an infected endometritis,emphasizes the importance of checking endometritis at once when present andof preventing it whenever possible. The pathological changes in acute pelvic inflammation are varied. There arehardly two cases exactly alike, and th

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