Incipent cystic disease of the parovarium and broad ligament / by Alban Doran.

  • Doran, Alban H. G. (Alban Henry Griffiths), 1849-1927
Date:
1882
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Credit: Incipent cystic disease of the parovarium and broad ligament / by Alban Doran. 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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    - * Reprinted from 1 Trpnaactions of thi Pathological Society of London 'for 1883. Incipient crj / i, 5 Parovarium and broad By Alban Doran. [With Plate XI.] mHESE specimens are brought forward with the intention of X throwing some light on the earlier stages of all cystic tumours of the uterine appendages that are not truly ovarian nor partly ovarian. As the parovarium plays such a prominent part in the pathology of cystic tumours of the broad ligament, it is better that an actual dissection of that organ be first examined before any researches are made for the purpose of tracing the origin of minute cysts in its vicinity. We have trusted far too much to diagrams and to second- hand information for our knowledge of the parovarium. It is not sufficient for us to think of the parovarium as something also termed the organ of Rosenmuller or epioophoron ; some obscure, insignificant structure beautifully figured in two or three foreign works on anatomy, so that no further notice need be taken of so “ worked-out ” a subject. It is equally unscientific to despise it as a “ relic.” Every part of the human body is a relic of what once was embryonic; most organs develop, it is true, and increase in functional importance, whilst the parovarium does not normally develop in the adult, and its functions, if there be any, are unknown. To the pathologist the parovarium should be of great interest, since, from or near it, cysts of the simplest and of the most com- plicated type may take their origin, and undoubtedly some such cysts actually arise from it, whilst others are merely associated with the parovarium by accidental proximity. To procure a good pair of uterine appendages suitable for the dissection of the parovarium, it is best to remove the internal organs of a young adult virgin who has not suffered during life from any disease of the pelvic viscera that tends to cause thickening of the broad liga- ment or long-standing congestion of its vessels. A still more suitable opportunity for examining the parovarium occurs when a multilocular glandular (and not papillary) cyst of the ovary is