Central Nervous System in Diabetes Mellitus

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Abstract
RETROSPECTIVE studies which had been designed to yield data about the frequency and topography of nervous system vascular lesions in diabetic patients coincidentally revealed a striking paucity of intracranial neoplasms in the same group.1The present communication represents a summary of these unanticipated findings and is based upon observations taken from 9,223 autopsies. Materials and Methods The autopsies which form the basis of this study were performed at Kings County Hospital Center during the period from 1953 to 1963 and represent all autopsy examinations, during this interval, in which the central nervous system was studied. Excluded, however, are those patients who died, either in transit to the hospital or in the admitting room, before any historical information or pertinent laboratory tests could establish or exclude the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. There were very few patients in this category. The general autopsies were undertaken by the resident physicians in pathology