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Title: Operative gynecology : Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Kelly, Howard A. (Howard Atwood), 1858-1943 Subjects: Gynecology Gynecology Gynecologic Surgical Procedures Publisher: New York and London : D. Appleton and company Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Text Appearing Before Image: tions from various portions of the wall often fail to reveal it, although atother points it may be present. The inner surface of the cyst is lined withone layer of cylindrical, cuboidal, or almost flat epithelium (see Figs. 197and 198). Vaginal Cysts Arising from Urethral Glands.—If vaginal cystsever owe their origin to urethral glands, such a condition is of very rare occur-rence. The possibility, however, can not be excluded; in fact there were twoof our cases in which various histological appearances justified the suppositionthat the tissue was very similar to, if not identical with, that of the urethra. 326 DISEASES OF THE VAGINA. Gas Cysts in the. Vagina.—Various names, such as colpohyper-plasia cystica and colpitis emphysematosa, have been applied tothis affection, which has been accurately described by von Winckel. The con-dition is usually, associated with pregnancy and consists of small cystic dila-tations occurring generally in the submucosa, but occasionally in the epi- Text Appearing After Image: Fi< Thin-walled Cyst of the Right Vaginal Wall. The cyst is somewhat acuminate and the base is much smaller than the greatest circumference. Path. No. 428. thelium itself. On puncturing the cyst there is a report with the escape ofgas and the cyst collapses. Such cysts last only for a short time and thendisappear. Von Winckel in 1886 reported three observations in pregnant women. In aspace that could be covered by a silver dollar he found fifteen to twenty cysts. VAGINAL CYSTS. 327

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