On the origin, structure, and mode of development of the cystic tumours of the ovary / by Wilson Fox, M.D.

  • Fox, Wilson, 1831-1887.
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[1864]
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Credit: On the origin, structure, and mode of development of the cystic tumours of the ovary / by Wilson Fox, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    metamorphosed and superficial cells of the so-called con- nective or fibrous tissue.^ Still, however, without pressing this conclusion to such a length in the case now under con- sideration, it may at least be concluded, from the crowd of nuclei seen at the end of the tube, that a process of growth was taking place at this spot; and it may be considered possible that the rounder nuclei proceeded from the old, and were about to represent new epithelial cells, while those which were elongated represented a new formation of ova- rian stroma, hereafter to form a fibrous wall for the glandular tissue. The process has, however, a further parallel in that described by Langer^ as occurring in the growth of the ducts of the mammary gland. He refers their extension to a conversion of the stroma of the mamma into glandular tissue. His figs. 9, 10, correspond very closely to the ap- pearances which I have described as occurring in the growth of these crypts. I may further mention that I have been able to ascer- tain that the two processes which I have just described, viz., the constriction of tubular cavities, and the increase of cysts by diverticula from the thin-walled specimens, have occurred simultaneously in the same specimens. The simi- larity of the processes is so great that this might have been predicted, and in the preparation whence Plate X, fig. 35, was taken, such processes as are represented by Plate X, figs. 37, 38, and 39, were found in the thickened wall of the parent cyst; and if it be objected that such an appear- ance as Plate X, fig. 39, represents could be presented by a cyst flattened by pressure, and seen in profile on section, there is at least no fallacy possible in the observation of diverticula such as are represented in figs. 37 and 38; nor in that in Plate VIII, fig. 3, where the stroma of the ovary ' I have retained this term as a provisional one, though aware of the exceptions taken to its use by many eminent anatomists, because at pre- sent we have none in common use by which it appears to me that it cau be rej)laced. ' ' Denkschriftcn der Wiener Akademie,' vol. iii, 1852, p. 26.