Manual of gynecology / by D. Berry Hart and A.H. Freeland Barbour.

  • David Berry Hart
Date:
1886
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Credit: Manual of gynecology / by D. Berry Hart and A.H. Freeland Barbour. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pelvic Con- nective Tissue—as seen in Horizontal Section. 3. Transverse or Horizontal Section. These give results confirming those above stated. Pirogoft' gives several sections in his Atlas, but these are not clearly defined in their connective tissiie relations. Freund has published a very valuable series of preparations in his recently issued gyniikologische Klinik. The most valuable sections are those at the level of the supra-vaginal portion of the cervix, which show the tissue lying here all round it. At fig. 44 we show a section from Ruedinger, where the retropubic fat and ischioi-ectal cavities are well shown. Parametric Tissue. Fig. 44. Transverse Section of Female Pelvis at plane of Hip-Joints (Ruedingir). a Coooyx ; 6 Ischiorectal fossa ; c Rectum ; d Vagina ; e Bladder ; / Retroimbic fat; g Hip-joint. This is the best place to draw special attention to what Virchow first termed the parametric tissue. By this term he meant the loose fatless tissue (2 cm. thick), with abundant blood-vessels and lymphatics, sur- rounding the lower portion of the uterus and the upper portion of the vagina {Sjnegelberg). This is the parametric tissue proper. Some extend the meaning of the term parametric tissue so as to include all the connective tissue in the pelvis. Coronal Section. 4. Coronal Section. Plate II. fig. 1, shows a coronal section of the pelvis passing through the base of the Sacrum and the great Trochanter. We note that the
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