OVARIAN CYST

25 August 1934

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 103 (8) , 559-560
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750340023006

Abstract

During the past decade it has become rare to encounter cases of abdominal tumor weighing 50 pounds or more. Occasionally, in the past, enormous fibroids and other tumors of the female genital organs were seen, but progress in medicine and surgery has been such that now most cases are detected and treated before any tumor reaches the 50 pound stage. In a review of the literature we have been unable to find a case of ovarian cyst with recovery approximating the one reported here. The tumor weighed about 175 pounds (80 Kg.). There have been two cases of cystic ovaries reported larger than this one, both during the nineteenth century. One occurred in Europe¹in 1890 and the other²in Baltimore in 1834. However, the former patient died after operation and the latter was discovered only at necropsy. REPORT OF CASE History.— Mrs. J. H. K., aged 47,

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