In a paper on infant
ovariotomy d several instances of this nature are mentioned.
Roemer successfully performed ovariotomy on a child one year and
eight months old; Swartz, on a child of four; Barker, on a child
of four; Knowsley Thornton, on a child of seven, and Spencer
Wells Cupples, and Chenoweth, on children of eight. Rein
performed ovariotomy on a girl of six, suffering from a
multilocular cyst of the left ovary. He expresses his belief that
childhood and infancy are favorable to laparotomy.
Kidd removed a dermoid from a child of two years and eleven
months; Hooks performed the same operation on a child of thirty
months. Chiene extirpated an ovary from a child of three; Neville
duplicated this operation in a child one month younger; and
Alcock performed ovariotomy on a child of three.
Successful ovariotomies are infrequent in the extremely aged.
Bennett mentions an instance in a woman of seventy-five, and
Davies records a similar instance. Borsini and Terrier cite
instances of successful ovariotomy in patients of seventy-seven.
Carmichael performed the operation at seventy-four. Owens
mentions it at eighty; and Homans at eighty-two years and four
months. Dewees records a successful case of ovariotomy in a woman
over sixty-seven; McNutt reports a successful instance in a
patient of sixty-seven years and six months; the tumor weighed 60
pounds, and there were extensive adhesions.
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