A contribution to the symptomatology and surgical treatment of spinal cord tumors / by J. Ramsay Hunt and George Woolsey.

  • Hunt, James Ramsay, 1872-1937.
Date:
1910
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Credit: A contribution to the symptomatology and surgical treatment of spinal cord tumors / by J. Ramsay Hunt and George Woolsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPRINTED FROM ANNALS OF SURGERY September, 1910 A CONTRIBUTION TO THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF SPINAL CORD TUMORS. BY J. RAMSAY HUNT, M.D., OF NEW YORK, Chief of the Neurological Clinic of the Cornell University Medical School; Neurologist to the New York, City and Babies’ Hospitals, and to the New York Hospital for Nervous Diseases, AND GEORGE WOOLSEY, M.D., OF NEW YORK, Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital; Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery in Cornell University. CLINICAL PAPER BY DR. HUNT. Introduction.—It is now a little over twenty years since Gowers and Horsley described their classical case of tumor of the spinal cord with successful extirpation and recovery. The reports which followed during the next ten years were, on the whole, very encouraging. In the last decade, however, with a more exact knowledge of the symptomatology and an improved surgical technic, this field has become one of the most promising in neurological surgery. In Starr’s1 contribution to this subject published in 1895, 123 cases of spinal cord tumor were analyzed, in 22 of which an extirpation of the growth was attempted; of this number 11