This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A CLINICAL AND PATHOLOGIC STUDY OF TWO CASES

JACK D. KIRSHBAUM, M.D.; HERMAN A. LEVY, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1941;68(6):1095-1104.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

As early as 1844 von Rokitansky¹ noted the rarity of tubercles in the hypophysis. Both Anderson² and Scott and Graves³ (in a review of the literature to 1933) found no recorded cases of tuberculoma of the hypophysis in the literature. Certain authors⁴ failed to mention the existence of tuberculous involvement of this endocrine gland, while others⁵ concurred in the opinion that it was rare. Garland and Armitage,⁶ in examining 3,533 brains post mortem, found that only 2 of 89 intracranial tuberculomas involved the sella turcica. Falta⁷ mentioned that von Frankl-Hochwart found 7 instances of a tubercle in 97 cases of tumor of the hypophysis without acromegaly. Houssay⁸ stated that "circumscribed tuberculous lesions affecting the pituitary as well as metastatic lesions from distant foci and invasion from neighboring tissues have been described," and listed twenty-one references to the literature. Simonds⁹ was able to collect records of 28 instances . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Instructor in Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine CHICAGO

From the Department of Pathology (Woodlawn Hospital), Cook County Hospital, and the Division of Surgery, Northwestern University (Dr. Kirshbaum).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?