An Autopsy Case of a Hypophyseal Tumor

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The hypophyseal tumor is one of the most important of tumors which arise in the brain, and in general, about 10% of intracranial tumors are of this type. Such a tumor shows miscellaneous clinical manifestations. Among these are remarkable hormonal symptoms and optic chiasmal syndromes which physicians, ophthalmologists and surgeons (especially neurosurgeons) have been very much interested in. It is rare to encounter a hypophyseal tumor in a forensic autopsy. Even if found, the ophalmological symptoms which enable one to ascribe the direction of tumor extention and the syndromes suspected to be derived from a hormonal imbalance due to the abnormal growth of tumor cells can hardly be investigated. But it is only occasionally that we cannot adequately pursue a past history which is interesting for examining the symptoms which existed. The present paper reports a man who died after a quarrel and in whom subdural hemorrhages were found by forensic autopsy, and by which a tumor in the sella turcica was thereby revealed after removal of the brain. The tumor was diagnosed as a pituitary adenoma, and as of the chromophobe type histologically.
札幌医科大学の論文
1977-02-01