ENCEPHALOGRAPHY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF HEMIPLEGIA FOLLOWING ITS USE, WITH REPORT OF A CASE

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Abstract
Since the introduction by Dandy, in 1918, of the injection of air into the cerebral ventricles for the purpose of diagnosis and localization of tumors of the brain, this method has been much used by neurosurgeons in all clinical centers and has proved a most valuable adjunct in clearing up a considerable number of obscure and ill defined symptoms of disease of the brain which failed to give the classic tumor syndrome. By this method, early diagnosis before irreparable damage to the brain, or blindness, has occurred and, what is equally important, the surgical approach has been made possible. It is true that the majority of tumors of the brain are diagnosed clinically, or should be, by meticulous attention to the history and to neurologic signs. A small number, however, elude one no matter how painstaking one is in eliciting the history and conducting the examination. To discuss the reasons

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