Identifier: practiceofobstet00edga (find matches)
Title: The practice of obstetrics, designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Edgar, J. Clifton (James Clifton), 1859-1939
Subjects: Obstetrics
Publisher: 3rd ed., rev
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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h of the cord envelops the protrudedviscera. Often the infant is still-bom. If the child is bom alive, the displaced ANOMALIES OF THE UMBILICAL CORD. 241 organs must be protected by proper bandages till operation can be performed.This affection is really eventration rather than hernia. 12. Syphilitic Lesions.—Macroscopic lesions are induration of the cord,thickening of the vascular coats, disconnection of the funicular vessels, owingto the disappearance of mucous tissue. Histological lesions are endophlebitisand periphlebitis, endarteritis and periarteritis (Fig. 291). 13. Obstruction of the Vessels.—The disconnection of the funicular vessels,by the disappearance of mucous tissue (Whartons jelly), is a very rare condi-tion; it is known to have been due to syphilis, and is accompanied by vascular lesions, such as gumma of theexternal coat of the vein, endo-phlebitis and periphlebitis.^^ ^j 14. Dilatation of the Umbili- cal Vein.—The vein may be theseat of abnormal dilatations, of
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