Intracranial tumours : notes upon a series of two thousand verified cases with surgical-mortality percentges pertaining thereto / by Harvey Cushing.

  • Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939.
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[1932]
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Credit: Intracranial tumours : notes upon a series of two thousand verified cases with surgical-mortality percentges pertaining thereto / by Harvey Cushing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dark so long as the tumour’s precise histological type is unknown; but it may be condoned on the grounds that the pineoblastomas at least may be looked upon as tumours probably as susceptible to the effect of radiation as the cerebellar medulloblastomas. There have been no post operative fatalities in the 10 cases diagnosed as ‘‘pineal tumour unverified” and thus treated. Personally I have never succeeded in exposing a pineal tumour suffi¬ ciently well to justify an attempt to remove it. Encouraging reports of Fig. 52. Example mentioned in text of inoperable pinealoma. such procedures, however, have been made by W. E. Dandy of Baltimore (1921), by Otfrid Foerster of Breslau (1928), and I have personal knowl¬ edge of two highly successful operations performed by my former assist¬ ants, Dr. W. P. Van Wagenen of Rochester, New York, and Mr. Hugh Cairns of London. The tumour in Dr. Van Wagenen’s case, a “pineo- blastoma (?),” was brought to view by a lateral transventricular ap¬ proach, the soft growth having been removed largely by suction, thus relieving the hydrocephalus.* In Mr. Cairns’ case, a “pinealoma of adult * This case has just been reported in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, August 1931, liii, 216-220.