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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XV
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In looking over the literature on this subject McIntyre found no mention of any solid tumor of this size having been removed.
On April 18, 1881, Keith, late of Edinburgh, now of London, successfully removed an edematous myoma, together with the uterus, which was 42 pounds in weight.

In a recent work Tait remarks that the largest uterine myoma which he ever removed weighed 68 pounds, and adds that it grew after the menopause.

McIntyre believes that his tumor, weighing 93 1/2 pounds, is the largest yet reported.

Eastman reports the removal of a fibroid tumor of the uterus weighing 60 pounds.

The patient recovered from the operation.
It is quite possible for a fibrocyst of the uterus to attain an enormous size, equaling the ovarian cysts.


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