Identifier: operativegynecol001kell (find matches)
Title: Operative gynecology :
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943
Subjects: Gynecology Gynecology Gynecologic Surgical Procedures
Publisher: New York and London : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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ular Continuous Suture. The vaseular area in the deeper part of the wound is controlledby the mattrass sutures. CARCINOMA OF THE CLITORIS. 245 Both labia majora were deeply pigmented from scratching, and the labiaminora were withered, insignificant structures from old-standing pruritus. The disease was extirpated by an oval excision 12 by 8 cm. (5 by 3^inches), extending from the mons veneris to the urethra.
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Fig. 130.—Ovoid Fluctuating Cy; )F the Clitoris The prepuce encircles the convexity of the tumor, extending from one labium minus to the other,forming a shallow sickle-shaped fold. The dorsal veins are shown above. A little lenticular vaginalcyst lies at the base of the left labium minus. Oper. June 21,1897. 246 DISEASES OF THE EXTERNAL GENITALS. Numerous actively bleeding vessels were clamped, and six of them wereligated. The wound was closed by bringing the edges of the incision togetherfrom side to side by interrupted sutures. Primary union was secured, andthe stitches removed on the seventh day. The pathological examination showed that the specimen consisted of theclitoris with the surrounding skin and mucous membrane. The clitoris wasconverted into a mass 2-1- by 2 cm., in whose center was an ulcerated cavity 1cm. deep, with necrotic grayish edges; the remainder of the mass was firm,of a grayish-pink color, and circumscribed in its growth. Microscopically the tumor was made up

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