Five cases of suprapubic cystotomy : three for stone, one for tumor in the bladder, and one for exploration with catheterism of the ureters : one death / by W.W. Keen.

  • William Williams Keen
Date:
1891
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Credit: Five cases of suprapubic cystotomy : three for stone, one for tumor in the bladder, and one for exploration with catheterism of the ureters : one death / by W.W. Keen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kefejiated-leom The Medical News, April i8, 1891] for Exploration with Catheterism of the Ureters; One Death} PROFESSOR OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY, JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE,PHILADELPHIA. Case I. Stone in the bladder; suprapubic cys- totomy; prostatectomy; recovery.—I was called to Vineland, N. J., September 12, 1888, by Dr. C. R. Wiley, to see Mr. B., aged sixty-five. He had had the usual symptoms of stone in the bladder for six years. A Petersen’s bag was inserted in the rectum and distended with ten ounces of warm water. The bladder was injected with six ounces of water with four grains of boric acid to the ounce. Suprapubic dulness then existed to two inches above the pubes. The operation was done by the usual vertical in- cision, and two stones were removed, weighing together 763 grains. The prostate projected so much into the bladder at the mouth of the urethra that I removed a piece a slarge as the last joint of the finger, by the scissors. The bleeding was slight. The bladder was not sutured. A drainage-tube was inserted and removed on the tenth day : a catheter was retained in the bladder for four days more. The patient recovered without any trouble, his ' Read before the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, April 6, 1890. SUPRAPU BIC CYSTOTOMY: e for Tumor in the Bladder, and One By W. W. keen, M.D.,