TREATMENT OF PROLAPSUS UTERI.

Prolapsus Uteri

Pror.*^ ? ns' interposition operation for prolapse ?aentia. The principle of the Watkins' operation is based on separating the bladder from the anterior wall of the nterus and transposing its attachment to the posterior wall, so that the uterus is left in a position to support the entire bladder. Watkins performed his first operation in 1898. Several modifications, notably that of Wertheim, hav...

Prolapsus Uteri: Its Ætiology, Prevention and Treatment

In the Eden Hospital during the last five years 560 patients presented themselves at the Outdoor Department with either complete or partial procidentia, being 4.5 per cent, of the total gynaecological cases. Of these, 245 consented to admission for operation. In every case the operation was by the vaginal route only, following closely the Manchester School technique. The complications and resul...

Case of Fatal Complete Irreducible Prolapsus Uteri

Kustner, in his article on Displacements of the Uterus in Veit's Handbuch der G-yncilwlogie, says : " It is very seldom that the consequences of prolapse lead to fatal diseases. In general, patients take their prolapse, even when they have completely neglected it, unpunished on into old age without being seriously distressed by it or its complications." Spiegelberg,1 however, has put on record ...

The Connection between Laceration of the Perinæum and Prolapsus Uteri

our Society. In that paper it was denied that laceration of the perinaeum had anything to do with prolapsus uteri; and altogether this part of the female, in relation to this displacement, was, in my humble estimation, by far too lightly esteemed. I most certainly believe that the peringeum plays a very useful part, though by no means the most important one, in the way of supporting the uterus;...

A Simple Perineal Operation, as Used in Cases of Prolapsus Uteri and for Perineal Repair