A Case of Large Ovarian Tumour in a Young Girl
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Elizabeth C., unmarried, a delicate, fragile girl of 16, was admitted into the Weymouth Sanatorium on the 25th of March, 1892, on account of a gradually increasing enlargement of the abdomen of about two years' duration. Her general health had been fairly good. The menstrual discharge appeared at intervals of about two weeks, and was rather profuse. Her ailment caused her a good deal of discomfort and some pain, and she had become the object of unjust suspicion in her neighbourhood. On examination, a large, prominent swelling was found, occupying the greater part of the abdominal cavity and extending up to the ensiform cartilage. The circumference of the body at the level of the umbilicus was forty inches. Fluctuation was distinct over a considerable
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