Identifier: americangynaecol1018unse (find matches)
Title: American gynaecological and obstetrical journal.
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Obstetrics Gynecology
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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singlelayer of flattened endothelial cells. Around the vessel the deciduahas generally a compressed appearance, the cells being flattenedparallel with the walls. In other parts, there is only a moderate increase in the size ofthe capillaries, and in others scarcely any is found. Here andthere small extravasations of blood are found in the decidual tis-sue. They may be found localized or diffused through a smallarea, having dissected the cells from one another. Eden states that an essential change in the formation of theearly vera is extensive rupture of blood-vessels, just as in menstrua-tion. In fact, he is of the opinion that decidual formation takesplace in the uterus which has recently menstruated, owing to theinfluence of conception. I cannot at all corroborate his statementas to haemorrhage. In normal cases I believe it to occur only to aslight extent. There is no proof that menstruation is necessary to the fixationand growth of the ovum. I have fully discussed this matter in my
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