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Observations by Dr. E. A. Schumann Upon In- 
teresting Conditions Found in the Female Genital 
Tract. 
3562. Lioness (Felis, leo), Malignant adenoma of cer- 
vix uteri, chronic hypertrophic and purulent endometritis 
with perforation, acute peritonitis. The uterus was the 
seat of nodular thickening. The cervix showed a rounded, 
nodular, sharply outlined, fibroid mass. The upper part 
of cervix and middle of body of uterus showed a smooth, 
fiat mucosa. Upper part of body was thickened and 
nodular and on section showed an irregular thickening 
of the wall with papillomatous and ulcerated elevations 
on the mucosa. Cornua much distended and tortuous 
the right being the seat of firm, nodular irregularities, 
the left being the seat of soft, cyst-like swellings. On 
opening the body of the uterus pus escaped from the 
left side. The right cornu showed great fibroid thicken- 
ing of the walls while the mucosa was irregular, swollen 
and hemorrhagic. The left uterine horn presented a 
series of spherical enlargements 8x6 cm., suggestive 
externally of early pregnancy. On section these nodules 
were found to consist of thinned out uterine muscle 
transformed into abscess cavities while the constricted 
portion between the nodules was of firm indurated tissue. 
Microscopical section from nodule at cervix shows an 
irregular glandular growth with sometimes duplicated, 
sometimes degenerated epithelium, the cells in many 
places being hyperchromatic. There is no definite ar- 
rangement of the glands or cells or appearance of extra- 
glandular nests although in places this latter is simulated. 
Some slight fibrosis is present. Body of uterus shows 
chronic hypertrophic endometritis and a chronic metritis 
without marked fibromatous change. Here and there 
are points of chronic inflammation deep in mucosa while 
more superficially infiltration and hemorrhage may be 
found. The glands are atypical in shape and arrange- 
ment because of the inflammation but in only one or two 
small areas does there seem to be a suggestion of re- 
