Operative gynecology : . ercellular substance was formed by a myxoid degeneration of thetissue; it was therefore a myxo-sarcoma. Carcinoma.— Cancerous disease of the clitoris is rare. Two cases only havecome into my hands for treatment. The first was a married woman, E. McD.,J. H. II. Gyn. ISTo. 179, fifty years old, who had three children, the lasttwenty-three years back. She had ceased to menstruate four years previously, and since that time hadsuffered from severe itching of the external genitals, for which she had receivedlocal treatment without relief. Two months before, she had noticed a
Operative gynecology : . ercellular substance was formed by a myxoid degeneration of thetissue; it was therefore a myxo-sarcoma. Carcinoma.— Cancerous disease of the clitoris is rare. Two cases only havecome into my hands for treatment. The first was a married woman, E. McD.,J. H. II. Gyn. ISTo. 179, fifty years old, who had three children, the lasttwenty-three years back. She had ceased to menstruate four years previously, and since that time hadsuffered from severe itching of the external genitals, for which she had receivedlocal treatment without relief. Two months before, she had noticed a spot of what she took to be proudflesh in the cleft of the vulva anteriorly; this grew rapidly until it reached thesize of the end of the thumb. It was not painful. I found on the dorsum of the clitoris an enlarged hard area, 1 by 8 cm. CARCINOMA OF THE CLITORIS. 243 in size, the surface of which was pouting, sharply defined, granular, warty,hard, yellowish, and slightly reddened; it was not adherent to structures be-.
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