Case 8-1969

Abstract

Presentation of Case First admission. A forty-three-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital for removal of a uterine fibroid.Eighteen months previously there had been the onset of excessive menstrual bleeding, without pain. She had undergone three pregnancies, fourteen, twelve and nine years previously, without complications except for toxemia during the first one.On admission the physical examination was negative except for the finding of an enlarged fibroid uterus. The urine was normal; the hemoglobin was 10 gm per 100 ml, and the white-cell count 11,700. On the second hospital day a total hysterectomy and an appendectomy were performed; . . .