About large cell growths on the peritoneum and ovaries during pregnancy

Abstract

Some authors described nodular small thickenings and enlargements of the pelvic peritoneum during ectopic pregnancy, which were considered especially characteristic of peritoneal pregnancy. Schmorl, who thoroughly studied the peritoneum of the pelvic floor in a number of cases of normal intrauterine pregnancy, soon came to the conviction that these growths are all too often found in the latter and therefore do not constitute anything characteristic of an ectopic pregnancy.