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Spondylitis Deformans (now known as spondylosis deformans). Regular Contour. X-ray shows ossification of intervertebral articulations.

Identifier: geriatricsdiasc (find matches)
Title: Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Nascher, I. L. (Ignatz Leo), 1863- Jacobi, A
Subjects: Geriatrics
Publisher: Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's son & Co.
Contributing Library: West Virginia University Libraries
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GIA Metrorrhagia is a symptom of various uterine disorders.Occurring during the menopause it is usually the menstrualflow coming on at irregular intervals. It may, however, bedue to an endometritis, prolapsed uterus or to a growth.Endometritis and prolapse give clearly defined symptomsand the metrorrhagia accompanying these conditions is readilycontrolled by styptics. Metrorrhagia due to fibroids, polypsor cancer is more persistent and continues after the completionof the menopause. In the case of fibroids the flow usually di-minishes as the senile involution of the organ proceeds and itmay cease completely. Polyps usually have a copious flowcoming on in spurts or there may be a continous dribble. Itgenerally diminishes during the menopause and may ceasealtogether. The flow that accompanies malignant diseasebegins as an insignificant watery, scanty discharge having apinkish tinge and slight or no odor. This discharge mayexist for months before any attention is paid to it. It gradually
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Spondylitis Deformans. Regular Contour. X-ray shows ossification of in-ter vertebral articulations. (Courtesy of S. Epstein, M. D., New York.) SENILE METRORRHAGIA 343 becomes darker and more copious and begins to have a fetidodor, which increases in intensity until it becomes intolerable.When this condition is reached the only question of diagnosis isbetween cancer and senile metritis (see Senile Metritis). Inthe early stage the effect of local treatment will usually sufficeto distinguish the metrorrhagia of malignant disease fromother forms of metrorrhagia. The discharge due to malignantdisease will persist in spite of the use of styptics and astringents,their action lasting but a few minutes or hours. In other formsof metrorrhagia the flow is controlled temporarily and oftenpermanently under local treatment. A metrorrhagia beginning after the completion of the meno-pause is almost invariably due to malignant disease. Othercauses are the hemorrhagic form of senile metritis, cardiac d

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