Diagnostic chirurgical. By W. M. Stern, Ancien Interne des Hǒpitaux de Paris, Membre Correspondant de la Société de Chirurgie. Eighth edition Medium 8vo. Pp. 1238, with 675 illustrations, some in colour. 1927. Paris: Gaston Doin et Cie. Paper covers Fr 130

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1928
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800155928

✦ Synopsis

and hardly as yet in more than an experimental stage : yet i t permits 11s to-day t o rcmove certain brain tumours from situations and under circumstances which a year ago-indeed, six months ago-I would not have thought possible". It is curious that Professor Cushing, who has recently distinguished some thirteen varieties of glioma, should coin the somewhat, cacophonic, non-committal term ' meningionia '.

t o avoid the far simpler histological classification of the endothcliomata which arise in the cerebral mernbranes.