. Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. Fig. 194.—Diagram representing the cyst regions of the ovary. (AfterBland Sutton.) a, oophoron, or egg-bearing portion of ovary; b, para-oopboron, or hilum of ovary;c, parovarium ; k, Kobelts tubes ; g, Gartners duct. are called Graafian follicles, and they contain ova (Fig. 194).These bags ought, when they get a certain size, to burst, andlet out the ova. If such a bag should not burst, but go ongetting bigger and bigger, of course it will form a largetumour. If two or three bags should go on enlarging insteadof bursting,
. Diseases of women. A clinical guide to their diagnosis and treatment. Fig. 194.—Diagram representing the cyst regions of the ovary. (AfterBland Sutton.) a, oophoron, or egg-bearing portion of ovary; b, para-oopboron, or hilum of ovary;c, parovarium ; k, Kobelts tubes ; g, Gartners duct. are called Graafian follicles, and they contain ova (Fig. 194).These bags ought, when they get a certain size, to burst, andlet out the ova. If such a bag should not burst, but go ongetting bigger and bigger, of course it will form a largetumour. If two or three bags should go on enlarging insteadof bursting, then we shall have a large tumour composed ofmore than one compartment (Fig. 195). This is such asimple and natural way of explaining the development of OVARIAN TUMOURS. 723. Fig. 195.—Enlargement of Graafian stage of cystic disease. ( ) ovarian tumours that one would think any other must onlyapply to exceptional cases. Why ovarian tumours develop. — We know not whyfollicles develop into cysts. Various explanations have beengiven: degeneration of the epithelium, extra thickness of thefibrous capsule, deficientbursting force (whateverthis means), haemorrhage,inflammation, etc., are merely verbaltheories. We know no-thing as to the causes ofovarian tumours, exceptthat they are least com-mon in women who havemany children; most com-mon in women who haveno children.* They occurat all ages, in the single and in the married, in the plumpand in the thin, in the rich and in the poor, in thosewith disease elsewhere and in those without it. We canneither predict nor prevent them. Hydrops folliculi.—In the ovary, as elsewhere, no sharpline can be drawn between health and disease. Small bagsof fluid in the ovary are norma
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