Among recent operations Briddon describes the removal of
an ovarian cyst which weighed 152 pounds, death resulting.
Helmuth mentions an ovarian cyst from which, in 12 tappings, 559
pounds of fluid were withdrawn. Delivery was effected by
instrumental aid. The tumor of 70 pounds was removed and death
followed. McGillicuddy mentions a case of ovarian cyst containing
132 pounds of fluid. The patient was a woman of twenty-eight
whose abdomen at the umbilicus measured 69 inches in
circumference and 47 inches from the sternum to the pubes. Before
the operation the great tumor hung down as far as the knees, the
abdominal wall chafing the thighs. Figure 263 shows the
appearance of a large ovarian cyst weighing 149 pounds. The
emaciation of the subject is particularly noticeable. Reifsnyder
describes a native Chinese woman affected with an ovarian tumor
seen at the Margaret Williamson Hospital at Shanghai. She was
four feet eight inches in height, and twenty-five years of age.
The tumor had been growing for six years until the circumference
at the umbilicus measured five feet 7 3/4 inches; 88 quarts of
fluid were drawn off and the woman recovered. In the College of
Physicians, Philadelphia, there are photographs of this case,
with an inscription saying that the patient was a young Chinese
woman who measured but four feet eight inches in height, while
her girth was increased by an ovarian cyst to five feet 9 1/8
inches.
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