. Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical. ticfluid may escape from acyst, a vascular s tlid tumormay he wounded : all oftin-; accidents have oc-curred. Yet these cannearly always he avoidedby proper care in the selec-tion of the point of punc-ture, and by rememberingthat, since the object ismerely to remove the ex-cess of free fluid, the needleneed not he introduced SO deeply as to reach the neo-plasm. The purpose of theoperation may he defeatedthrough blocking of theneedle by lymph or a thickfluid. Ascitic fluid is of ayellowish or greenish color,frequently bloody, has aspecific gravity sel


. Clinical gyncology, medical and surgical. ticfluid may escape from acyst, a vascular s tlid tumormay he wounded : all oftin-; accidents have oc-curred. Yet these cannearly always he avoidedby proper care in the selec-tion of the point of punc-ture, and by rememberingthat, since the object ismerely to remove the ex-cess of free fluid, the needleneed not he introduced SO deeply as to reach the neo-plasm. The purpose of theoperation may he defeatedthrough blocking of theneedle by lymph or a thickfluid. Ascitic fluid is of ayellowish or greenish color,frequently bloody, has aspecific gravity seldomabove Kilo, and containsa considerable amount ofalbumin, hut no paralbu-min. The viscidity noted even in thin cyst-fluids is absent. It coagulatesspontaneously, and, when examined microscopically, contains few, if any,of the cell-elements so common in the contents .if ovarian cysts. It is evi-dent that the fluid from a parovarian cyst, when mixed with blood, mightpresent the same peculiarities. Of more diagnostic value are the sprouting. ?AbP z&m


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