Further experience with a technique of total extracapsular hypophysectomy

Freshwater, Donald B.; Crue, Benjamin L.; Shelden, C. Hunter; Pudenz, Robert H.

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(195701/02)10:1<105::aid-cncr2820100114>3.0.co;2-d

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“…A small frontal flap is turned, usually on the right side, sometimes with lumbar drainage, sometimes with ventricular puncture, and sometimes with a small frontal lobectomy, but more often with only retraction of the frontal lobe and opening of the chiasmatic cistern. FRESHWATER et al (1957) use the prone semi-erect position for the craniotomy.…”

Section: Methods Of Securing Pituitary Ablationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The gland is then removed piecemeal by using rongeurs and curettes the latter being the more useful instrument in our hands. It is occasionally possible to remove the gland in one or two pieces, or complete in its capsule (FRESHWATER et al 1957), andMATSON (1958) uses a series of small dental instruments with the object of permitting capsular delivery of the gland. Using the stalk as a guide, he carefully divides the diaphragm and defines a plane of cleavage between capsule and dura, and separates along this plane with the curettes, in many cases being able to lift out the gland still in its capsule in one or two pieces.…”

Section: Methods Of Securing Pituitary Ablationmentioning

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The Role of Hypophysectomy (Surgical and Radiological) in the Treatment of Advanced Carcinoma

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1959

Minim Invasive Neurosurg

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The modification of the behaviour of certain cancers, particularly of breast and prostate, by alteration of their endocrine environment, has attracted much attention in the past ten years. An understanding of this aspect of the work is necessary if hypophysectomy is to be used intelligently as a therapeutic measure, and as a moans of providing further information about the factors involved in the initiation and promotion of cancer. The situation was reviewed by PYRAH in 1956, and adrenalectomy and hypophysectomy were discussed by ATKINS and others at a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1957, but a Conference at the University of Glasgow in 1957 considered the matter in its widest aspects, and its proceedings (CURRIE 1957) provide at the moment probably the most comprehensive and detailed review, although a more recent analysis of the endocrine aspects of breast cancer has boon contributed by WELBOURN (1959) and provides the most up-to-date summary of current ideas.

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Section: Methods Of Securing Pituitary Ablationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methods Of Securing Pituitary Ablationmentioning

confidence: 99%