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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    On protruding her tongue she had a clonic to and fro movement which became apparent on talking or moving the tongue. She became stead- ily worse and finally was comatose. The urine examination was negative. She rallied, however, her symptoms steadily disappeared and she was discharged from the hospital four months after- wards, the only remaining symptom being a dimness of vision. These two cases are similar to those recorded by Nonne. No adequate explanation for them can be given. | Lesions of the Cerebellum Without Symptoms.— These lesions may be either congenital, acquired early in life, or may be tumors. It is not sur- prising that injuries to the cerebellum early in life or that tumors of slow development which occur in the same period give no appreciable symptoms, because the functions of the cerebel- lum in such cases have probably been assumed by other parts of the brain. Lesions of the lat- eral lobes of the cerebellum are less liable to cause symptoms than when they implicate the entire cerebellum. Spiller recorded three cases of lesion of the cerebellum in which there were no symptoms, and he also reviewed the litera- ture upon this subject. In his first case one cere- bellar lobe was smaller than the other, and it was sclerotic. In the second case there was a tumor a