Abstract
PREGNANCIES have occurred in the presence of or after the removal of dysgerminomata. The harborers of these rare ovarian tumors, which are usually on the right side, are not necessarily sterile. These patients may be grouped into those with normal pelvic organs and secondary sex characteristics; and those who have coincidentally undeveloped genitalia or pseudohermaphroditism. All of the pregnancies reviewed have been in the former group. The incidence is 1 in 43,822 deliveries at the Woman's Clinic of the New York Hospital. Most unusual are some of the circumstances in which the pregnancies have occurred. Lorber (1) reported a patient whose tumor was diagnosed in the third month of gestation. A corpus luteum of pregnancy was found in the capsule of the tumor. Cunningham (2) delivered a healthy infant by cesarean section from a patient with large, bilateral ovarian tumors and widespread metastases. This patient succumbed fourteen months later. Von Szathmary (3) reported a case with a fist-sized cold absces...
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