Gynaecology for students and practitioners . lopian tube, and thestretched mesovarium. Pseudomyxoma ovarii {see Figs. 370 and 371). This is the name givento a variety of the pseudomucinous cyst, in which the contents consistof pure pseudomucin and the walls of the cyst are very thin and trans-parent. On microscopic section the high palisade epithelium, whichis so characteristic a feature of the pseudomucinous cyst, is seen tohave largely disappeared, often only the basal parts of the cells re-maining. The cytoplasm is replaced by a structureless substancewhich stains very faintly with eosin {s
Gynaecology for students and practitioners . lopian tube, and thestretched mesovarium. Pseudomyxoma ovarii {see Figs. 370 and 371). This is the name givento a variety of the pseudomucinous cyst, in which the contents consistof pure pseudomucin and the walls of the cyst are very thin and trans-parent. On microscopic section the high palisade epithelium, whichis so characteristic a feature of the pseudomucinous cyst, is seen tohave largely disappeared, often only the basal parts of the cells re-maining. The cytoplasm is replaced by a structureless substancewhich stains very faintly with eosin {see Fig. 372). This material is 668 GYNAECOLOGY pure pseudomucin, a resultant product of cell-degeneration or secretion,or, according to Nagel, a product of degeneration of the profound structural alteration produced by its presence is bestappreciated by comparing Figure 368 with Figure 372. Rupture of the cyst-wall frequently occurs and masses of jelly-likepseudomucin {see Fig. 371P) are constantly poured on to the peritoneum,. Fig. 373. Cyst-adenoma Serostjm Papillare (after von Franque). The papuliferous processes have broken through the capsule of the growth and have also entirely filled its cavity. A very rare type. which it is difficult, if not impossible, for the latter to absorb, theresult being that the material is distributed over the whole abdomen bythe peristalsis of the bowel. Thus an irritative chronic peritonitis isset up, with the development of young connective tissue between ad-herent peritoneal surfaces ; a complete clearance by operation is im-possible, and the condition is now described a,s pseudomyxoma condition is, nearly always, a secondary result of pseudo-myoxma ovarii, but a similar affection has, in about twelve instances,been recorded as starting in the vermiform appendix, in which the BENIGN EPITHELIAL TUMOURS 669 appendix was involved as well as the ovary. These appendix-caseshave mostly occurred in males, but two in wo
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