NOTES ON A SERIES OF INTRACRANIAL TUMORS AND CONDITIONS SIMULATING THEM

摘要: This discussion may be opened by calling attention to Table 1 as a point of departure for the several matters I shall briefly touch on in connection with patients proved or presumptive tumors at present hospital wards. It gives summary working subdivision cases our tumor series up May this year. 1.—Cases Tumor Series Number Percentage Total Tumors histologically verified..... 868 Gliomas (so diagnosed) all types..... 362 41.7 Adenomas (chiefly pituitary)..... 169 19.5 Meningiomas ("dural endotheliomas")..... 99 11.4 Neurinomas (acoustic)..... 77 8.9 Congenital tumors..... 54 6.2 Craniopharyngeal pouch cysts..... 42 Cholesteatomas and dermoids..... 8 Teratomas..... 4 Granulomatous 36 4.2 Tuberculomas..... 23 Syphilomas..... 13 Metastatic invasive (varia)..... 34 3.9 Papillomas (choroid-plexus tumors)..... 1.5 Angiomas..... 0.9 Miscellaneous unclassified..... 16 1.8 unverified but presence unquestioned... 476 suspects: probably not