. The Principles and practice of gynecology : for students and practitioners. called a fibrocystictumor. Figure 155. Cystic Degeneration may occur as follows : Oedema may causeso much dilatation of the lymph-spaces as to give the whole tumoran appearance of marked cystic degeneration, or the dilated cavernousveins already described may be converted into blood-cysts. Calcification occurs most frequently in atrophied subperitoneal 346 TUMORS, TUBAL PREGNANCY, MALFORMATIONS. tumors, and may pertain to the individual fibrous septa or to thecapsule or in exceptional cases the entire tumor may be di
. The Principles and practice of gynecology : for students and practitioners. called a fibrocystictumor. Figure 155. Cystic Degeneration may occur as follows : Oedema may causeso much dilatation of the lymph-spaces as to give the whole tumoran appearance of marked cystic degeneration, or the dilated cavernousveins already described may be converted into blood-cysts. Calcification occurs most frequently in atrophied subperitoneal 346 TUMORS, TUBAL PREGNANCY, MALFORMATIONS. tumors, and may pertain to the individual fibrous septa or to thecapsule or in exceptional cases the entire tumor may be displacedby lime salts and converted into a stone—so-called womb-stone. Asection of such a stone made by the saw will sometimes take a highpolish with the whole arrangement of the fibrous septa and capsulereproduced in the lime salts. More commonly the spaces betweenthe septa do not calcify, but disappear by some other degenerativeprocess giving the calcified part a porous, worm-eaten, or coral-lilvcappearance. When the calcification is chiefiy or wholly in the Figure Fibrocystic myoma uteri. The interior of the tumor shows the fibrocystic changes. fibrous capsule the tumor is covered by a thin hard crust whichmay resemble closely the foetal skull. In the enucleation of sucha tumor from the corpus uteri the writer once found a calcifiedcapsule which under the thin wall of the corpus uteri felt so much likea foetal head—including the sutures and fontanelles—that he was ledalmost to abandon the operation. Septic Infection.—A myoma which has for years given rise to noinconvenience, may become suddenly infected, with rapid increase insize, high pulse and temperature, great pain, and evidences of sep-ticaemia. The cause of infection, sometimes obscure, is explainedusually by the presence of one or more of the known causes ofpelvic inflammation, such as electrolysis, the unclean intra-uterinesound, external violence, septic operations, and extension of infection TI^MOns O
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