Pregnancy after removal of both ovaries for cystic tumour / by Alban Doran.

  • Doran, Alban H. G. (Alban Henry Griffiths), 1849-1927.
Date:
1902
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Credit: Pregnancy after removal of both ovaries for cystic tumour / by Alban Doran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fornices were free from any deposit, etc., after the scybala had been cleared away. The patient then said she was troubled with flushings occasionally. I asked her about the period, expecting that it would have ceased within a year or two after the operation. Then she told me that it was last seen as late as December, 1900, when she had a severe shock owing to a sudden death in her family, and the period never returned ; she was therefore just over forty-five at the menopause. I was interested with this after history, but my surprise was great when she volunteered the statement that she had borne a child since I removed her second ovary. I asked her for further information, and then she explained that she had given birth to a child in the summer of 1896, just two years after the operation. I at once wrote to Dr. Stacey Burn, of Richmond, who attended the patient on that occasion, and he replied, “ I remember Mrs. very well. I find she was confined on July 23rd, 1896, of a girl.X I had to use forceps, though there was apparently no obstacle to the descent of the head, but 1 believe she has always had to have forceps used. I quite well remember her telling me about her two operations, and that you had told her that she would not have any more children. I have no notes of the case, but there was nothing abnormal about it beyond what I have said.”* From the above records of this case it is clear— (1) That a cystic tumour of the left ovary was removed by Dr. Barnes when the patient was twenty-five. (2) That after the operation she bore four children, and then a cystic tumour of the right ovary developed, which I removed when the patient was thirty-nine, finding the stum]) of the pedicle on the left side reduced to a mere tubercle. (3) That not only did the period recur soon after the second operation, the menopause not being established till / * The patient was unable to suckle this or any other of her children; the mammce were very ill-developed. ttclv V