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Sixteen cases of benign cystic ovarian neoplasms (13 serous cystadenomas and 3 dermoids) were discovered among 5,616 pregnancies. The only serious complication was torsion of the ovary containing the tumor in one case.
Thirteen cases of pyometra without preoperative diagnosis in which vaginal or abdominal surgery was performed, are analysed in the present paper. The histologic examination revealed endocervicitis in all cases, while positive cultures for bacteria were found preoperatively in only eight of the above cases, thus, pyometra was considered to be a symptom of obstruction of the cervical canal.
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The post-operative morbidity of 70 patients who underwent total abdominal hysterectomy five to thirteen days after punch-biopsy of the cervix uteri and diagnostic curettage was compared of that of a control group of patients, with hysterectomy alone. It was observed that the sequence punch-biopsy hysterectomy presented a significantly higher post-operative morbidity. This increase was mainly due to higher parametritis, excessive vaginal discharge and wound infections rates. The interval between the two operations was also found to influence the post-hysterectomy morbidity, which seems to decrease with longer intervals.