The tumor was removed and weighed 182 1/2 pounds; it
contained 22 gallons of fluid. Figure 265 shows the appearance of
the woman two months after the operation, when the girth was
reduced to normal. Stone performed ovariotomy on a girl of
fifteen, removing a tumor weighing 81 1/2 pounds. Ranney speaks
of the successful removal of a unilocular tumor weighing 95
pounds; and Wall tells of a death after removal of an ovarian
tumor of the same weight. Rodenstein portrays the appearance of a
patient of forty-five after death from an enormous glandular
ovarian cystoma. The tumor was three feet high, covered the
breasts, extended to the knees, and weighed 146 pounds. Kelly
speaks of a cyst weighing 116 pounds; Keith one of 89 1/2 pounds;
Gregory, 80 pounds; Boerstler, 65 pounds; Bixby, 70 pounds; and
Alston a tumor of 70 pounds removed in the second operation of
ovariotomy.
Dayot reports the removal of an enormous ovarian cyst from a girl
of seventeen. The tumor had been present three years, but the
patient and her family refused an operation until the size of the
tumor alarmed them. Its largest circumference was five feet 11
inches. The distance from the xiphoid to the symphysis pubis was
three feet.
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