. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. and vascular, and thespindle-cells are infiltrated with small round cells. Theterm diffuse papillary adenoma is applied to this condi-tion. The mass of tumors may be so great as to projectfrom the external os. Etiology.—In one-seventh of all cases they are associ-ated with uterine fibroids, and are then found on the wallcorresponding to the situation of the fibroid tumor. Theregion of the internal os is the common seat of the dis-ease, which may be accounted for
. A Reference handbook of the medical sciences : embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science. and vascular, and thespindle-cells are infiltrated with small round cells. Theterm diffuse papillary adenoma is applied to this condi-tion. The mass of tumors may be so great as to projectfrom the external os. Etiology.—In one-seventh of all cases they are associ-ated with uterine fibroids, and are then found on the wallcorresponding to the situation of the fibroid tumor. Theregion of the internal os is the common seat of the dis-ease, which may be accounted for by the fact that theglands are very numerous in that situation. Seventyper cent, of all cases occur after the menopause, andthen they seldom give sufficient discomfort to demandtreatment. Gonorrhoeal infect on, by setting up a catar-rhal inflammation of the uterine mucous membrane, is acommon cause of this disease. A strumous diathesis isalso said to predispose a person to adenomatous diseaseof the uterine mucous membrane. According to Kiistner, such growths may result frompatches of decidual membrane which have been left in. Fig. 4422.—Adenoma. Section from the Region of the Pedicle. At theleft is a part of cyst-wall covered with cylindrical epithelium. Thiscyst, as well as others, is surrounded by masses of connective muscular tissue is seen to the extreme right. the uterus, and they have therefore been called by him deciduomata. Symptoms.—The symptoms of these benign inflamma-tions of the mucous membrane of the uterus are abdomi-nal and sacral pains. The abdominal pains are cramp-like in character, and irregular in their onset ; haemor-rhage may be frequent and severe. These haemorrhagesand a profuse watery or purulent discharge, with accom-panying anaemia, may give to the patient the appearanceof one suffering from some malignant disease. Prognosis.—In cases of circumscribed mucous polypiof the cervix or body, the prognosis is good, for they areoften
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