Three Cases Illustrative of Herman Freund's Law of Pedicle Torsion in Ovarian Tumours
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When the preparation was still fresh, I showed the Society a specimen of an ovarian dermoid with torsion of the pedicle, remarking that it illustrated Dr Herman W. Freund's explanation of the pedicle torsion of ovarian tumours.1 Two other cases of ovariotomy this spring have occurred where the pedicles were twisted, and as the histories of the cases which furnished the preparations present several points of interest, I give them from the ward journal as drawn up by Dr Fothergill:?
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