A table of over fifty complete cases of primary cancer of the Fallopian tubes / by Alban Doran.

  • Doran, Alban H. G. (Alban Henry Griffiths), 1849-1927.
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[1904]
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Credit: A table of over fifty complete cases of primary cancer of the Fallopian tubes / by Alban Doran. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cases already noted, especially No. 3, it teach.es us how prognosis, even on microscopical evidence, may be as difidcult as diagnosis. ADDENDUM. Since I prepared these tables my attention has been directed to a valuable monograph by Dr. H. Peham, of Vienna, entitled “ Das primare Tubenkarzinom ” {Zeits. fur Heilkunde, 1903, Vol. xxiv.. Surgical Section, p. 317). The author does not publish any tables, but after the manner of Danel and Stolz, arranges his cases in a series of short clinical notes. The following were not included in my tables, to which they here form a supplement. I have excluded incomplete or purely pathological reports by von Franque, Borner and others. Peham’s monograph contains copious references; the following reports are taken direct from that work, excepting Nos. 60 and 61, which I condensed from Quenu and Longuet’s original article on tumours of the tube in the Revue de Chirurgie, another paper of great merit, including tables of cases of all forms of tumour affecting the oviduct. Primary Cancer of the Fallopian Tube. No. 54. Age 49. One labour, premature, 16 years. Period becoming irregular. Sudden attack of retention of urine when in good health; immediately sought medical relief. Two large swellings behind uterus. Inguinal and supra-clavicular glands swollen. Vaginal extirpation of uterus and appendages. Papillary carcinoma of both tubes; small cyst of left ovary. Recovery; died in about three years of perforative peritonitis, the caecum being infected; the vagina, bladder, rectum and retro-peritoneal glands were also involved. ^ (Zangemeister). No. 5^. Age 47. Nullipara, married. Period regular. For a year sacral pains and haemorrhages, followed by sanious watery discharge and emaciation. Pelvic tumour, size of a goose’s egg, to left of uterus. Uterus and appendages removed by abdominal section; left tube adhered to small intestine. Left tube formed a tubo-ovarian cyst; papillary cancer of right and left tubes; the tubo- ovarian portion of left tube not involved. Recovery. Recurrence within two years and death. (Zangemeister). No. 56. Age 49. Married, last child 20 years. Period regular. For six months could not retain urine; sacral pain, then abdominal tumour. Swelling, size of a child’s head, to left of uterus. Appendages removed by abdominal section; tumour and right tube