. Cyclopædia of obstetrics and gynecology. egelberg (loc. cit., see Fig. 15) saw a fibroma arising in the posteriorwall of the cervix, which had become wedged into the vagina and hadformed adhesions with its anterior wall. In attempting to excise thetumor an opening was made into Douglass cul-de-sac, and the patientdied from pysemia. A very interesting case, belonging to this categoiy, is described byFreund.* There was a tumor the size of two fists outside of the vulva,thte lower third of which was divided from the rest by a shallow depres-sion. This under part was whitish in color and not sen


. Cyclopædia of obstetrics and gynecology. egelberg (loc. cit., see Fig. 15) saw a fibroma arising in the posteriorwall of the cervix, which had become wedged into the vagina and hadformed adhesions with its anterior wall. In attempting to excise thetumor an opening was made into Douglass cul-de-sac, and the patientdied from pysemia. A very interesting case, belonging to this categoiy, is described byFreund.* There was a tumor the size of two fists outside of the vulva,thte lower third of which was divided from the rest by a shallow depres-sion. This under part was whitish in color and not sensitive to a pinprick; the upper two-thirds was bluish red, gangrenous and very sensi- 1 Scanzonis Beitrag-e, vol. VI., p. 65. 2 Obstet. Transact., vol. VI., p. 184. ^ Klinik der Geburtshiilfe, etc., , p. * Betschler : Klin. Beitrage, part III., p. 165. 186 NEW GROWTHS OF THE UTERUS. tivc. The tumor seemed to pass directly into tlie fundus of tlie small opening was at length discovered on the posterior surface, through. Fig. 14.—Large Interstitial JIyoma of the posterior Wall, of the Neck of the Uterus(After Murray.) Avhicli a sound passed to the left for 5 cm. into the atrophied was in this an interstitial fibroma, whose lower third had been


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