Three cases of cranial surgery ... / by William H. Morrison.

  • Morrison, W. H. (William H.)
Date:
1892
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    THREE CASES OF CRANIAL SURGERY. I. Linear Craniotomy for Defective Mental Develop- ment. Report of a Case Ihirteen Months af ter Operation. Decided Mental Improvement. II. Exploratory Trephining for Epilepsy. Negative Results. III. Trephining for Abscess of the Brain. Evacuation of One Ounce of Pus. Recovery. By WILLIAM H. MORRISON, M.D., OP HOLJIESBURG, PA. [Read May 25, 1892.] The cases' which I shall bring before the Society to-night, although differing in their pathological characters, are topographi- cally related, and may with propriety be reported together. Each of the cases presents certain instructive points for consideration, and, thinking that it might interest the members of the Society to have an opportunity to examine the patients, I have had them brought before you. The first case is one of linear craniotomy, an operation suggested some two years ago by Lannelongue,1 of France, as possibly of service in certain cases of microcephalus and deficient mental development. In the case now reported thirteen months have elapsed since the oper- ation, and the child certainly shows a decided improvement in its mental and physical condition. The second case is one of epilepsy in which there were certain somewhat indefinite localizing symptoms. Exploratory trephining was done nine mouths ago with negative results. The third case is one of abscess of the brain, symptoms of compression of motor areas developing rather abruptly eight days after injury to the head. The skull was at once opened, and an 1 L’Union MOdicale, July 8, 1890.