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Blot reports a case of atrophy, or rather rudimentary state of one of the ovaries, with absence of the tube on that side, in a woman of forty.
Doran has an instance of multiple Fallopian tubes, and Richard, in 1861, says several varieties are noticed.

These tubes are often found fused or adherent to the ovary or to the uterus; but Fabricius describes the symphysis of the Fallopian tube with the rectum.
Absence of the uterus is frequently reported.

Lieutaud and Richerand are each said to have dissected female subjects in whom neither the uterus nor its annexed organs were found.

Many authors are accredited with mentioning instances of defective or deficient uteri, among them Bosquet, Boyer, Walther, Le Fort, Calori, Pozzi, Munde, and Strauch.
Balade has reported a curious absence of the uterus and vagina in a girl of eighteen.

Azem, Bastien, Bibb, Bovel, Warren, Ward, and many others report similar instances, and in several cases all the adnexa as well as the uterus and vagina were absent, and even the kidney and bladder malformed.
Phillips speaks of two sisters, both married, with congenital absence of the uterus.


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