RACIAL AND SEXUAL INCIDENCE OF PRIMARY INTRACRANIAL TUMORS

摘要: The racial incidence of primary intracranial tumors has received little attention in the literature. Since more than one-half necropsies at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, have been carried out on Negroes, it seemed that study autopsy material from this hospital might be instructive. MATERIAL AND METHOD This was based records 10,112 consecutive autopsies (1929 to 1942 inclusive) performed patients between ages 1 month and 70 years, age range with series. In addition, 649 studies brains made January 1940 July 1943 were reviewed results survey correlated facts obtained total number autopsies. second series used as a control indicate any abnormal distribution among various sexual groups. There slightly