VERIFIED BRAIN TUMORS

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In Dr. Cushing's recent monograph on intracranial tumors a statement appears to the effect that what is more important than the mere statistical enumeration of the dead and the living is to know what has happened to the survivors. Toward this end, the present inquiry was undertaken. During the summer of 1932 an opportunity presented itself to be associated again for a few weeks with the surgical service of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. With it came the privilege of reporting on the follow up of a group of Dr. Cushing's patients seen during my term as resident in the neurologic service, now some eight years ago. The group selected for study comprised the "verified" tumors of the brain, 149 in number. Scarcely is a person admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of a brain tumor than one is beset with a whole train of queries by the family

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