Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others].

Date:
1905
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Credit: Tumors of the cerebellum / by Charles K. Mills [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tumors of the brain stem: Pons ey TUPSE culo ais eters ai evstale eh eisce eieheveienetaiay Biel seiaitel (wiveisa, 0, ¢ 2 GITOIT AN a) aie ear ra Vere eke hace enced ahah aiiebe tal ote amistinn s tel meal alla loko tao 1 On the pons and medulla oblongata: Sarcoma......... 1 On the medulla oblongata: Chondrosarcoma........... 1 Within the fourth ventricle: Sarcoma..........-...sese0: 2 On the corpora quadrigemina: Fibroma............... 1 Within the corpora quadrigemina: Glioma............ 1 Tumors of the brain and cord: General sarcomatosis, with large tumors, especially in the cerebellopontile angle...... 4, Sections of at least seven other brain tumors were not considered, because definite knowledge of the location of the growths was lacking. According to statistics tumors of the cerebel- lum are less frequent than of the cerebrum. Schuster, in a statistical table of some thousand cases of brain tumor, found 21.6 per cent. to be cerebellar. When the relative size of the cere- bellum and the cerebrum is considered, it is prob- able that new growths are more frequent in the former. Tuberculous growths are more common in per- sons below the age of twenty years, while gli- oma, sarcoma, and cysts of various kinds are more frequent in the adult. The frequency of fibroma, especially of the acoustic nerve, is be- coming better recognized. Syphilitic tumors of the cerebellum are rare. Of the other forms of new growths, as carcinoma, lipoma, angeioma, psammoma, and dermoid cysts, there are very few instances in the literature.