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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

CHAPTER XV
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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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