A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 317.—Exostoses at sacro-iliac Fig. 318,—Exostoses around the pelvic brim (model in the authors collection). their importance as obstacles in labor depends, of course, upontheir size. Cysts of the pelvis are formed usually in sarcomataand in enchondromata. or are hydatid cysts. Cancer o{ thepelvic bones is always a secondary growth or is metastatic. It 45r> 7J/J-: PATHOLOGY OF LABOR. may result in a number of small tumors in the bony pelvic walls,or may take on the form of cancerous infiltration with a conse-quent softening of the bones like that o
A textbook of obstetrics . Fig. 317.—Exostoses at sacro-iliac Fig. 318,—Exostoses around the pelvic brim (model in the authors collection). their importance as obstacles in labor depends, of course, upontheir size. Cysts of the pelvis are formed usually in sarcomataand in enchondromata. or are hydatid cysts. Cancer o{ thepelvic bones is always a secondary growth or is metastatic. It 45r> 7J/J-: PATHOLOGY OF LABOR. may result in a number of small tumors in the bony pelvic walls,or may take on the form of cancerous infiltration with a conse-quent softening of the bones like that of osteomalacia. Thetreatment oi labor obstructed by tumors of the pelvis is ordi-narily the performance of Cesarean section. There is one caseon record (Abernethys) in which the tumor, an enchondroma,was removed by an incision in the posterior vaginal wall, but inthe vast majority of cases these growths can not be reached or
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