THE NATURAL HISTORY OF INTRACRANIAL NEOPLASMS
Authors: M G NETSKY, J M WATSON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1956)

Article1 August 1956THE NATURAL HISTORY OF INTRACRANIAL NEOPLASMSMARTIN G. NETSKY, M.D., JAMES MACD. WATSON, M.D.MARTIN G. NETSKY, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JAMES MACD. WATSON, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-45-2-275 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe history of development of signs and symptoms is used in the differential diagnosis between neoplastic and vascular disease of the brain. The diagnosis of a brain tumor first depended on recognition of the triad—headache, nausea and vomiting, and papilledema. This was later realized to be nonspecific evidence of increased intracranial pressure, and hence often the end-stage of the course of a cerebral neoplasm. In 1933 Bailey1said that the presence of tumor should and can be diagnosed before the appearance of the triad. He gave as the cardinal symptom of tumor of the nervous system a history of nonfebrile,...Bibliography1. Bailey P: Intracranial tumors, 1st Ed., 1933, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois. Google Scholar2. CecilLoeb RLRF: A textbook of medicine, 9th Ed., 1955, W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. Google Scholar3. Alpers BJ: Clinical neurology, 2nd Ed., 1949, F. A. Davis, Philadelphia. Google Scholar4. JohnsonWalker HCAE: The angiographic diagnosis of spontaneous thrombosis of the internal and common carotid arteries, J. Neurosurg. 8: 631-659, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. PennybackerMeadows JSP: Normal ventriculograms in tumors of the cerebral hemispheres, Lancet 1: 186-190, 1938. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. MerrittBrenner HHC: Normal air encephalograms in patients with convulsive seizures and tumor of the brain, New England J. Med. 230: 224-225, 1944. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. DavidoffEpstein LMDS: The abnormal encephalogram, 1950, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia. Google Scholar8. BaileyBuchananBucy PDNPC: Intracranial tumors of infancy and childhood, 1939, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Google Scholar9. Oldberg E: Hemorrhage into gliomas, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 30: 1061-1073, 1933. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. Lindenberg R: Compression of brain arteries as pathogenetic factor for tissue necroses and their areas of predilection, J. Neuropath. and Exper. Neurol. 14: 223-243, 1955. CrossrefGoogle Scholar11. RileyEisberg HACA: Differential diagnosis between cerebral degeneration, infiltrating cerebral neoplasm, and infiltrating cerebral neoplasm with degeneration, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat. 15: 48-74, 1926. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. Zülch KJ: Hirnschwellung und Hirnödem, Deutsche Ztschr. f. Nervenh. 170: 179-208, 1953. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. Dunphy JE: Changing concepts in the surgery of cancer, New England J. Med. 249: 17-25, 1953. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar14. NetskyShapiroHoffmanCorsentinoFriedZimmerman MGJMBJRHM: The effect of single doses of x-radiation on experimentally induced gliomas, Am. J. Roentgenol., in press. Google Scholar15. NetskyAugustFowler MGBW: The longevity of patients with glioblastoma multiforme, J. Neurosurg. 7: 261-269, 1950. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication January 24, 1956. (Presented by title to the American Neurological Association, Chicago, June, 1955.)From Montefiore Hospital, New York, New York, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College, and the North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Martin G. Netsky, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Wake Forest College, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem 7, North Carolina. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byNervensystemNervensystemWhy patients with brain tumors come to a psychiatric hospital: A 30-year survey 1 August 1956Volume 45, Issue 2Page: 275-284KeywordsBrainHistory of medicineHospital medicineLymphomaNauseaNervous systemPathogenesisSigns and symptomsVascular diseasesVomiting Issue Published: 1 August 1956 PDF downloadLoading ...