Open AccessOn the Value of rectal exploration as an Aid to Diagnosis in Diseases of children. Tuberculosis of the Uterus or Adnexa
Author(s) -
M. Ginzburg
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
žurnalʺ akušerstva i ženskihʺ boleznej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1684-0461
pISSN - 1683-9366
DOI - 10.17816/jowd113347-348
Subject(s) - medicine , girl , uterus , tuberculosis , autopsy , fallopian tube , surgery , pelvic cavity , gynecology , pathology , psychology , developmental psychology
Tuberculosis of the uterus, Fallopian tubes, and ovaries very rare in children, so rare that D-r. S. remembers all these cases both clinical and postmortem. There are also very few of these drugs in museums. In Guy's Hospital, there are only 2 of them: one is the Fallopian tube, stretched by cheese-like masses, the other is the brain and lungs. Choffey reported one case of uterine tuberculosis in a 4-year-old girl who died of general tuberculosis; Silcock in a 5-year-old girl, both in 1885, Dr Cheatle at an autopsy of a 21-month-old girl, found pyosalpinx communicating with a purulent pelvic cavity, where there was pus near the drachm.