REFORMATION OF AN OVARIAN DERMOID CYST

IN A previous paper entitled Ovarian Conservation during Surgery1 particular attention was paid to bilateral ovarian dermoids and ovarian endometriosis. Two patients were reported therein who had bilateral ovarian dermoid cysts and in whom at operation a piece of normal-appearing ovary was preserved. In both cases this small piece of tissue, about half the size of a dime, was salvaged from the left ovarian cyst and was able to produce normal, regular periods. One of these 2 patients has not married. The other has married and has been delivered of 3 healthy, well-formed babies — on October 24, 1940, December . . .