An unusual case of haemato-salpinx (recurrent haemato-salpinx) / by R. Lawford Knaggs ; communicated by A.L. Galabin.

  • Knaggs, Robert Lawford.
Date:
1893
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Credit: An unusual case of haemato-salpinx (recurrent haemato-salpinx) / by R. Lawford Knaggs ; communicated by A.L. Galabin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    from its tension. This was tJie condition that was found when the patient was first examined. As the congestion subsided, the block was again removed and the contents trickled away (this time gradually, ])ossibly because of the absence of clots), and as the tension was relieved, the un- comfortable symptoms vanished, and the diseased appen- dage gradually resumed the appearance that was found at the operation. Note.—Dr. Thomas Ashby, of Baltimore, has described a case having much the resemblance to the foregoing (international Clinics,^ vol. iii, p. 234). The patient, a woman of thirty-seven, suffered from intermittent and irregular haemorrhage, which occasionally issued from the vagina on the least exercise, in sufficient quantity to deluge her clothing. A sausage-shaped tumour, not unlike a pus tube, had been observed within the pelvis, but was not always present. When the tubes were removed, the abdominal ostia were found closed, the walls hypertrophied, the mucous lining thickened and hyperaemic, and their cavities enlarged and containing dark grumous blood, but no clots.