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Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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losed at operation. I attempted to extirpate the cyst, with a fatalresult, for the child died suddenly a few hours after the operation— *I feel confident that the adherence by C. H. Frazier to a unilateral methodof approach to cerebellar tumors, advocated likewise by Krause, is the occa-sion for his and Dr. Spillers repeated statement that these are the least satis-factory of all brain tumors for operation. It may necessitate, as Dr. Frazierhas explained, the partial removal of the cerebellar hemisphere to gain ac-cess to the lateral recess. The matter has been reviewed by P. Lecene inthe Journal de Chirurgie, 1909, Vol. ii., p. 36. 612 (NTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL possibly a thymus death, as we found the characteristic glandular en-largements at autopsy. Had I satisfied myself with a simple aspirationor partial removal of the cyst-wall in all probability we would havesaved the child. The brain shows very well the large cystic cavity andthe great dilatation of the ventricles (Fig. 5).
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Fig. 5. To show high grade of internal hydrocephalus consequent upon a cysticglioma of the cerebellum. The margin of growing tumor is apparent atupper edge of cyst. The first of the patients presented was seen by one of mycolleagues about a year ago. The history and examination revealednothing except the vomiting and headaches and the condition wasnaturally supposed to be one of simple gastric disturbance and was sotreated for a time. The second patient, as I have said, was thought fora long time to be the subject of labyrinthine disease, and other illustra-tions might be given. A particularly large number of these patients haveat one time or another been treated for hysteria. The mistaken diagnoses really make a professionally disconcertingrecord. A frequent result of the delay is blindness. The last patientshown (Case III.), with a successful extirpation, is shut oft, for thisreason, from future ability to earn a livlihood by his previous trade. Outof these eleven successful cerebel

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