Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This operation was to remove a tumor, which proved to be as large as a league baseball,* from Oscar's brain. It was an operation that taxed all of the surgeon's knowledge and technique, his accuracy and precision. Few other surgeons are able or willing to do the like...
...cerebrum (the tumor operation had nothing to do with the cerebellum) is divided from front to back into two hemispheres, a left and a right, which function almost alike. Each hemisphere is composed of five lobes, termed frontal, parietal, occipital, temporosphenoidal and central. Each is separated to a certain extent from its neighbor by fissures, or depressions, and each is also made up of elevations called convolutions and of lesser depressions...
...Tumor. In the case upon which Dr. Dandy operated, the youth began last December to show strange symptoms. He was depressed, erratic, wanted to commit suicide. Hearing, sight and most other functions seemed not affected. But his conduct, his attitude towards life were. There was something wrong with his higher psychical centres (one at the fore end of each hemisphere), perhaps with only one of the two, although they are most intimately related. Physicians diagnosed his ailment as from a tumor which was pressing down upon the fore part of the right hemisphere of the cerebrum. They sent...
There now lay the tumor, big as a baseball, looking like a sloppily rounded corn fritter. A few judicious slashes and it was free. Back went the excised meninges. Back the bone. Back the flap or scalp. Sutures there were. The operation was a success, a triumph...
...This means that all patients who desire to avail themselves of this treatment must go to Liverpool and place themselves under the care of the group of physicians who have familiarized themselves with the symptoms which indicate whether a patient can stand a sufficient dose to affect the tumor...