A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . in this situation accidentally, thepatient not having thought of the existenceof any thing of the kind. Polypi attachedin this locality are usually not larger than a,fig. no. 37. hickory-nut. FlBRLoNGPrE™EWITH Placental polypus may develop from a,partially retained placenta, or rather from the retention of apart of the placenta, on account of inflammatory action hav-ing caused abnormal adhesions between the placenta anduterus. They are a source of active hemorrhage. C. Braun(Dublin Med. Jour., 1851)
A treatise on the medical and surgical diseases of women, with their homopathic treatment .. . in this situation accidentally, thepatient not having thought of the existenceof any thing of the kind. Polypi attachedin this locality are usually not larger than a,fig. no. 37. hickory-nut. FlBRLoNGPrE™EWITH Placental polypus may develop from a,partially retained placenta, or rather from the retention of apart of the placenta, on account of inflammatory action hav-ing caused abnormal adhesions between the placenta anduterus. They are a source of active hemorrhage. C. Braun(Dublin Med. Jour., 1851) describes this variety ofpolypus of the uterus. Braun relates five cases; but, fromthe description, I think it would be as well to designatethese cases as partially retained placenta, and not classifythem under the head of polypi at all. When removed theycertainly have no disposition to return. Etiology and Morbid Anatomy. Doubtless, the origin of the fibrous polypi vegetations ofthe endometrium and mucous polypi may be found in aninflammatory, condition. The reason why some cases of in-. UTERINE POLYPI. 355 flammation, and injury causing inflammation, develop tumorsin the uterus of various forms and qualities in some instancesand not in others, is hard to explain; in fact, I may say,explanation is impossible in the present state of our knowl-edge. From all that I can learn I believe that the fibrouspolvpus originates in the fibrous tissue of the uterus, like anintra-mural, submucous, or subserous fibroma of the uterus,from inflammation at this particular point in the this point of inflammatory action (which may havebeen caused by a bruise accidentally received during gestation,in labor, or otherwise), there is exuded a plastic material,which organizes into a hard mass, usually largely consistingof white fibrous tissue, especially if the injury is upon theinternal surface of the uterine muscular tissue beneath themucous surface. The muscular contractions of the u
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