The Ultimate Results of Operations for Intracranial Tumours: A Study of a Series of Cases after a Nine-Year Interval.

Abstract

This paper deals with the late results of a series of intracranial tumours operated on during the twelve months, September 1926 to September 1927, in the clinic of Dr. Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. During that period it was my privilege to act as Assistant Resident Surgeon in the clinic and to make a report of the year's work which was published by the * From the Brain Tumor Registry, Yale University School of Medicine. Nothing could have been more gratifying than to have a former pupilparticularly one who has made an enviable reputation for himself in another country-come to visit us again after a long nine-year separation. Mr. Cairns ' written proposal, made just a year ago, that he undertake an endresult study of the Brigham Hospital patients who had come under his supervision, was gladly accepted. Dr. Van Wagenen, one of his predecessors, had already made a similar report for 1924-25, so that we were fully aware of what lay ahead if fresh contact were to be made with each of the widely