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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    bellar tumor’ was found, and in three the medulla oblongata was affected. It appears, therefore, that when the brain or its membranes are im- plicated in sarcomatosis, usually the structures of the posterior cranial fossa are affected, and that in about two thirds of the cases a tumor of the cerebellum is found.” In Spiller’s first case a large sarcoma was found in the left cerebellar lobe, and in his sec- ond case a tumor was found in each cerebello- pontile angle, the larger one being on the left side, as shown in Fig. 1. Tumors were also found in this case in the Gasserian ganglia, pitui- tary body, floor of the fourth ventricle, right in- ternal auditory meatus, and right jugular fora- men, and numerous small tumors were found in the pia of the spinal cord. It may be impossible, as in Spiller’s second case, to make a correct diagnosis in sarcomatosis of the brain and of the pial covering. Extensive alteration may cause few clinical symptoms, be- cause the soft tumor masses grow in the pia and about the cranial nerves and spinal roots, and may produce little or no compression or destruc- tion of the nervous tissue. Spiller insists upon the importance of remembering this fact, for when evidences of sarcomatosis are found, the case iS an inoperative one.