A 53-year-old woman was admitted to hospital in July 1976 complaining of passing frank
blood in the stools following intermittent episodes of melena. Her medical history was …

The content of these tumors, however, was a fat-like substance, no hair or other ectodermal
derivatives being found. On microscopic examination only an occasional area of what …

Although dermoid cysts of the ovary are relatively common, these tumors are much less
frequently found in other locations within the abdominal The most common extra-ovarian …

MAJOR CHARLES F. JAMES, JR. MEDICAL CORPS, ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES
Beneviene,'a FIorentine anatomist, in 1507 reported a mesenteric cyst that he found at …

DERMOID CYST OF THE LESSER OMENTAL BURSA* Page 1 DERMOID CYST OF THE
LESSER OMENTAL BURSA* KARL MEYER, MD, FACS AND PHILIP SHAPIRO, MD CHICAGO …

The patient was a 26-year-old white female, gravida 4, para 4, admitted on September 24,
1958, because of moderately severe right lower quadrant pain and nausea of 48 hours …

A case of dermoid arising from the rectal wall Page 1 218 THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF
SURGERY situated about 14 in. above the diaphragm and in the posterior wall of the viscus …

340 THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY was indefinite. The pain was epigastric, and
was relieved by the occasional vomiting with which it was sometimes accompanied. There …

Rectal cysts are uincommon, with a search of the medical literature revealing only 12
reported cases. This is in contrast with postanal and sacrococcygeal dermoids which …

A case of a dermoid cyst of the rectovesical space which might have been developmental in
origin or a result of implantation of dermal tissue at the time of hemorrhoidectomy 30 years …