Chronic Ovarian Pain as Illustrated in the Record of a Case finally Treated by Double Oophorectorny.*

Abstract

WHEN this communication was postponed from the last meeting of the Society it was suggested that it might be niade the basis of a short discussion on the operation of oophorectoiny for the relief of pain and its after-results. Abdomino-pelvic pain in women provides both the physician and the surgeon with some of the most complicated and puzzling problems in medicine, and its various aspects and relations might profitably monopolize our attention for the whole evening. I n this short paper * Read a t a meeting of the Glasgow Obstetrical and C y n e cological Society held on zznd May, 1912. Kiglit ()vary Eruiii Uehiutl (Natural Sizr). Shuwiiig distentled follicle and corrugation. Right Ovar? in Sec+oii (x 2). Showing sclerosis, unruplured cysts, and thickened cortex and cyst M a l l .