Sometimes other congenital anomalies are present at the same time with congenital defective vision (for example, congenital dermoidgrowths on the edge of the cornea), and undoubtedly hereditary influences play a considerable role therein.
A slight irregularity in the curve of the cornea near the dermoid is detected with the ophthalmoscope; the fundus of the eye is perfectly normal.
There is a congenital dermoid growth of the size of half a pea situated on the inner lower corneal margin.
Dermoid Cyst of Ovary showing Teeth in its interior.
The literature of dermoid cysts is full of accounts of puzzling tumours met with in all sorts of situations.
If the external orifice becomes occluded, there results a dermoid cyst.
Such a dermoid usually takes the form of a globular cyst, the wall of which consists of skin, and the contents of turbid fluid containing desquamated epithelium, fat droplets, cholestrol crystals, and detached hairs.
Thus we may find in an ovary or testicle a dermoid cyst, containing a tooth or a ball of hair.
A dermoid cyst is formed by an involution of the skin with a growth of hair on the inner wall of the sac.
Thomson reports a case of dermoid cyst of the bladder containing hair, which cyst he removed.
Aron speaks of an operation for pilous dermoid of the ovary in a woman of seventy-five.
Bramann reported a case in which a dermoid cyst of small size was situated over the sternum at the junction of the manubrium with the gladiolus, and a similar cyst in the neck near the left cornu of the hyoid bone.
There are peculiar cases of hair in the bladder, in which all history as to the method of entrance is denied, and which leave as the only explanation the possibility that the bladder was in communication with some dermoid cyst.
Ward reports the successful removal of a dermoid cyst weighing 30 pounds from a woman of thirty-two, the mother of two children aged ten and twelve, respectively.
According to Senn, Barker collected sixteen dermoid tumors of the tongue.
Kidd removed a dermoid from a child of two years and eleven months; Hooks performed the same operation on a child of thirty months.
A diagnosis of dermoid cyst was made and two operations were performed on the boy, death following the second.
There are several cases of multiple dermoidcysts on record, and they may occur all over the body.
The dermoid contained a cerebral vesicle, a rudimentary eye, a canine and a molar tooth, and a piece of bone.
Chitten removed a dermoid from the sternum of a female of thirty-nine, the cyst containing 11 ounces of atheromatous material.
Dermoid cysts are found also in regions of the body quite remote from the ovary.
The accompanying illustration, taken from Baldy, pictures a dermoid cyst of the complicated variety laid open and exposing the contents in situ.
Wellington Gray removed an enormous lingual dermoid from the mouth of a negro.
In this group are the dermoid cysts with their various contents, epidermis, sebum, hair, teeth, and bone.
Lücke[79] mentions the frequency ofdermoid cysts near the median line of the head, the vicinity of the eye, and the side of the neck.
It may follow the rupture of ovarian or dermoid cysts, rupture of the uterus, extra uterine pregnancy or extension from pyosalpinx.
Dermoid cysts containing skin, bones, teeth and hair, are of frequent growth in the ovary, and have attained the weight of from 20 to 40 kilogrammes.
In consequence of the continuity and similarity of structure, there is close sympathy between the mucous and dermoid membranes.
An ovarian cyst, especially a dermoid incarcerated by the uterus, may render this operation necessary.
Strangest of all, a small ovarian dermoid has been removed through the rectum under the impression that it was a polypus of the bowel (Stock, Peters).
Three cases of Suppurating Dermoid Cyst, of or near the Ovary, treated by Abdominal Section.
Berry Hart performed ovariotomy on a woman in the fifth month of pregnancy, and removed a dermoid of the left ovary ‘enlarged to about the size of a man’s brain by recent hæmorrhage due to the twisting of a pedicle’.
Dermoid patches should be shaved off as close to the cornea as possible; the white area left after their removal can be improved by tattooing.
It is to be differentiated from a retention cyst of the submaxillary gland by the fact that a probe can usually be passed down the submaxillary duct alongside of the swelling, and from sublingual dermoid (p.
Cephaloceles have to be diagnosed from dermoid cysts, nævi (Fig.
A dermoid cyst is most commonly situated over the position of the anterior fontanelle, in the region of the occipital protuberance, or at the lateral angle of the orbit.
A sebaceous cyst may reach such dimensions as to simulate a dermoid or thyreo-glossal cyst.
They have to be diagnosed from other forms of cyst occurring in the middle line of the neck--sebaceous and dermoid cysts--and when giving rise to disfigurement they should be excised.
When near the skin they are of the nature of dermoid cysts, being lined with squamous epithelium and filled with sebaceous material.
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