Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . of these aspolyps, even though they may resemble them, but to keep that namefor those which are found within the cavity of the organ. An im-portant sub-variety is the intra-ligamentous, developing in the thick-ness of the broad ligament, which will be described with tumors ofthe cervix. Whatever may be the seat of the fibroma, it provokes a constantbut varying degree of uterine hypertrophy. UTERINE FIBROMATA. 219 The muscular wall increases in such a way as to encapsulate anumber of tumors as a single mass; the muscular layers then resem-ble thos
Treatise on gynæcology : medical and surgical . of these aspolyps, even though they may resemble them, but to keep that namefor those which are found within the cavity of the organ. An im-portant sub-variety is the intra-ligamentous, developing in the thick-ness of the broad ligament, which will be described with tumors ofthe cervix. Whatever may be the seat of the fibroma, it provokes a constantbut varying degree of uterine hypertrophy. UTERINE FIBROMATA. 219 The muscular wall increases in such a way as to encapsulate anumber of tumors as a single mass; the muscular layers then resem-ble those of the gravid uterus, often being continued far into thebroad ligaments, which become thickened and A large vas-cular development generally accompanies this hypertrophy. The increase in the volume of the uterus, caused by the continualcongestion of which the neoplasm is the focus, might be compared tothat which occurs in the first months after fecundation; for whichreason the name fibrous pregnancy (grossesse fibreuse) has been pro-. Fig. 131.—Interstitial Fibroid of the Body op the Uterus. posed by Guy on to designate the Even small fibromata aresufficient to produce the condition (Fig. 127). The uterine cavity isfound much enlarged by the eccentric hypertrophy, andalso, in part,by the traction of the mass which hangs from the fundus of the organ. Fibromata of the Cervix.—Fibrous tumors of the cervix deserve aspecial paragraph; they are found in the same positions and could beclassified as other fibroids; but the division of the cervix into twodistinct regions, the supra- and the sub-vaginal, makes another classi-fication necessary. A. Fibromata of the External Os.—Whether submucous or inter-stitial, they give to the lip involved a cylindrical and elongated form(Fig. 134). The submucous tumors of the cervical canal occasionallytake on a peculiar polypoid form, of which I have observed examples. 220 CLINICAL AND OPERATIVE GYNAECOLOGY. They descend into
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