MENINGIOMAS ARISING FROM THE TUBERCULUM SELLAE

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When the question "What's wrong with you?" is put to adult patients who are referred to a neurosurgical clinic, the answer "My sight is failing" is probably in these latter days far more often given than any other. Not infrequently it is the sole complaint. Let us suppose that under these circumstances a detailed examination discloses only two objective findings—an atrophic pallor of the optic nerves and bitemporal field defects or a tendency in that direction. There are no constitutional evidences of disordered pituitary function and the x-ray films of the skull show a sella turcica within the limits of normal. What, then, is a diagnosis ?1 It lies within the memory of most of us when the recognition of an intracranial tumor rested on the triad of headache, vomiting and choked disk. Tumors were supposed to be rare, and when on the basis of these so-called cardinal

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