A case of intradural spinal cyst, with operation and recovery / by W.G. Spiller, J.H. Musser and Edward Martin ; with a brief report of eleven cases of tumor of the spinal cord or spinal column, by William G. Spiller.
- William Gibson Spiller
- Date:
- 1903
Licence: In copyright
Credit: A case of intradural spinal cyst, with operation and recovery / by W.G. Spiller, J.H. Musser and Edward Martin ; with a brief report of eleven cases of tumor of the spinal cord or spinal column, by William G. Spiller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The tenth case was one of multiple carcinoma of the vertebra^ with compression of the spinal cord. The patient was in my service at the Philadelphia Hospital. She was weak in all four limbs, espe- cially in the lower, and suffered much pain. The muscles were greatly atrophied. The eleventh case is the one reported in this paper in which a cyst and not a tumor was found, but the case may be classed with those of spinal -tumor, as the symptoms were the same. These eleven cases are not the only cases of spinal tumor that I have seen, but they are suffi- cient for statistical purposes. Only three were cases in which operation could have been attempted justifiably, and these were cases one, seven, and eleven, and in the first operation hastened death ; in the seventh operation was not attempted, and in the eleventh very great benefit was obtained by operation. The cases to which I have referred are inter- esting in connection with the recent paper by Col- lins,1 in which he says: “Basing the statement upon the reports of cases operated upon, and those that have come to autopsy without operation, it may be said that 50 per cent, of intraspinal tumors are operable, and of this number one-third to one- half are benefited by operation. Spinal cord tumors are, therefore, twice as operable as brain tumors, and the results of operation are twice as successful.” I take the following from the paper by Putnam, Krauss, and Park :2 “ The percentage of recovery [from spinal cord tumors with operation] in Bruns’ and Lloyd’s collections is practically the same, 1 Loc. cit. 2 Loc. cit.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22397528_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
