TUMOR OF THE PINEAL GLAND (PINEALOCYTOMA) WITH MENINGEAL AND NEURAL METASTASES

摘要: The case we are reporting is unusual and in some respects seems to be unique. problem it presented the clinician pathologist was finally solved by microscopic study of tissues obtained post mortem. REPORT OF A CASE History. —The patient, a hatter, aged 33, on admission hospital Jan. 20, 1933, complained chiefly pains back, numbness hands progressive weakness right thigh. family history irrelevant. In 1929 patient had suffered from polyuria, polydipsia, blurring vision loss sexual power. He observed at Mount Sinai Hospital, where diagnosis tumor pituitary gland made (a flattened sella turcica found) roentgen therapy instituted. At that time basal metabolic rate —29. improved sufficiently permit him return