A few of the examples on record of operations during pregnancy of
special interest, will be given below. Polaillon speaks of a
double ovariotomy on a woman pregnant at three months, with the
subsequent birth of a living child at term. Gordon reports five
successful ovariotomies during pregnancy, in Lebedeff's clinic.
Of these cases, 1 aborted on the fifth day, 2 on the fifteenth,
and the other 2 continued uninterrupted. He collected 204 cases
with a mortality of only 3 per cent; 22 per cent aborted, and
69.4 per cent were delivered at full term. Kreutzman reports two
cases in which ovarian tumors were successfully removed from
pregnant subjects without the interruption of gestation. One of
these women, a secundipara, had gone two weeks over time, and had
a large ovarian cyst, the pedicle of which had become twisted,
the fluid in the cyst being sanguineous. May describes an
ovariotomy performed during pregnancy at Tottenham Hospital. The
woman, aged twenty-two, was pale, diminutive in size, and showed
an enormous abdomen, which measured 50 inches in circumference at
the umbilicus and 27 inches from the ensiform cartilage to the
pubes. At the operation, 36 pints of brown fluid were drawn off.
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