Note on a Chylous Mesenteric Cyst, Simulating a Pelvic Tumour

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  • John A. C. Kynoch
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subject altogether, or merely refer to it briefly. Although it is of surgical, rather than of gynecological interest, the condition has been so frequently mistaken for pelvic tumours, that on this account as well as my having had the experience of a case, I have ventured to bring a note of it before the Society. Between the layers of the mesentery we find connective tissue, fat, lymphatic vessels and glands, unstripped muscular fibre, as well as congenital remnants of the Miillerian and Wolffian ducts?all of which may give rise to tumours in this

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دوره 36  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017