OPERATION ON THE HYPOPHYSIS ACCORDING TO HIRSCH'S METHOD

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
Disturbance in the hypophysis, leading as it does to pathologic conditions in the glands governing the internal secretions, produces a symptom-complex of peculiar interest to specialists in nearly every branch of medicine. In the diagnosis, ophthalmology enjoys a definite preeminence. Involvement of the thyroid may bring forward the laryngologist and the special interest of otologists is demanded by such instances as the case described by Schultz and Fischer in which in a youthful acromegalic there were bony changes producing nearly complete deafness. The rhinologist claims interest in the subject, however, of paramount importance. The development of the anterior lobe and the anomalies in formation lead him to interest himself in the embryology, and the fact that the best operative results have been obtained through his domain puts him on his mettle surgically. First, then, I wish to report this case as a simple chronicle of an operation successfully performed by

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: