Ovarian cyst in an infant newly born.

  • Charles James Cullingworth
Date:
[1874]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ovarian cyst in an infant newly born. 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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    and in others dark. They all contained a well-formed large nucleus, lying mostly near their broad free border. A thin section of the left ovary showed it to be of normal structure, containing in its stroma well-formed ovisacs (Pfliiger’s tubes). Between the upper border of the ovary and the Fallopian tube a number of small tubes with club-shaped extremities were seen, evidently the remains of the Wolffian bodies. Thus the contents of the cyst, as well as its situation, point to the con- clusion that it is ovarian, and that it had for its centre of formation a Graafian follicle.”
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