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HYDATID MOLE AND ITS RELATION TO DECIDUOMA MALIGNUM. *
Author(s) -
HART D. BERRY
Publication year - 1902
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1902.tb15915.x
Subject(s) - relation (database) , citation , berry , library science , medicine , computer science , data mining , botany , biology
MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN,-I need hardly say it was with great pleasure I acceded to your secretary's request that I should open your Society with some remarks bearing on the subjects in which we have a common interest. I have the most pleasant recollections of my visit in 1885, at the time of the British Medical Association's meeting, and am glad once more to meet old friends, Dr. Taylor, Dr. Edwards, Mr. Sheen, and others. Societies like yours play a very important part in medical life. They give facilities for discussions, and papers on scientific and practical subjects, afford opportunity to the experienced practitioner of giving the younger men the benefit of his knowledge, as well as stimulate the beginner fresh from the schools to work up some case or series of specimens to his own benefit and that of his fellows. One specially good effect of such societies is that of keeping up good feeling and tone in the profession, and if for nothing else they are worthy of all support. In thinking over some subject on which I might say a little, it occurred to me that it would be of interest to you if I discussed a condition many of you must have seen in practice, perhaps on more than one occasion, and one on whose investigation I have spent a little time recently-viz., the condition known as hydatid mole. This remarkable pathological change in a pregnancy must have always struck the practitioner, and, indeed, has been known for long. Since 1889, however, when Sanger first drew attention to the remarkable form of apparent malignant disease following abortion or pregnancy, and since it has been known that it most frequently follows hydatid mole (in about half the cases), great attention has been paid to such abortions, and a large number of questions await solution. The most clamant of these are : What is the nature of hydatid mole ? Can we tell histologically what form will develop malignant disease ? How is hydatid mole, in certain cases, followed by metastatic deposits ? and