The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries : (being the Hastings essay for 1873).. . =><^./<^of^r #. H .jri -diss, IS-- ?si. -??.-.;v-^>^**^ _>.ifl ?H ^ o g OVARIAN TUMORS, CONDITIONS WHICH SIMULATE THEM. 147 We may also find, from the observations of De Sinety andMelassez, a confirmation of what I advanced many years ago ina discussion upon tiiis subject: tliat there was no kind of cell ofepithelial origin that it was not possible to obtain from the cyst-cavities of an ovarian tumor. In the last paragraph quoted from the French authors thereis a most concise descrip
The pathology and treatment of diseases of the ovaries : (being the Hastings essay for 1873).. . =><^./<^of^r #. H .jri -diss, IS-- ?si. -??.-.;v-^>^**^ _>.ifl ?H ^ o g OVARIAN TUMORS, CONDITIONS WHICH SIMULATE THEM. 147 We may also find, from the observations of De Sinety andMelassez, a confirmation of what I advanced many years ago ina discussion upon tiiis subject: tliat there was no kind of cell ofepithelial origin that it was not possible to obtain from the cyst-cavities of an ovarian tumor. In the last paragraph quoted from the French authors thereis a most concise description of what must also be regarded as atendency to malignant growth; that is, the reversion of type inthe production of these cells toward immature, incomplete, andrapidly growing elements which are practically cancerous. This of course at once explains the clinical fact which all ova-riotomists are quite familiar with, and to which Dr. Keith hasespecially drawn attention—that the rupture of certain cysts, onthe escape of their fluid into the peritoneal cavity, is followed by,or at least is associated with, the infection of the gen
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