Volume 1

Operative gynecology / by Howard A. Kelly.

  • Howard Atwood Kelly
Date:
1901, ©1898
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    or six days an infiltrated everted cervix, so rigid that tlie lips can not be drawn together, will soften sufficiently for operation in the course of two or three weeks. There is a condition which is commonly known by the erroneous title of erosion of the cervix, which must be carefully distinguished from laceration. J Fig. 280.—So-called Erosion of the Cervix Uteri. There is no laceration, but an infection of the cervical glands which has caused the mucosa to swell up and roll out into the vagina, partially everting the cervix. Age 20. Gyn. No. 4865. Dee. 12, 1896. The OS forms a wide transverse slit, and the surfaces of both li])s are covered with an angry red, glistening, fissured surface, upon which a closer examination reveals the orifices of numerous glands. This is due to an infection of the cer- vical glands and a swelling of its mucosa, which, having no room inside, is com- pelled to roll out on to the vaginal surface; it is therefore an eversion of the cervical mucosa. Operation.—The plastic tperation for the repair of a lacerated cervix was devised by Dr. T. A. Emmet ^ rinciples and Practice of Gynecology, Phila- delphia, 1881, p. 466).