Interstate medical journal . which was made; so thatnow, in this series of thirty-one cases, we have had three deaths directlyattributable to the operation. One of them—I will show you the brain—was a patient with a typical cerebellopontine lesion—the benign endo-thelioma which nestles in the recess of the medulla, pons and cerebellum—a lesion we now regard as very favorable for operation. The patientunfortunately died from pneumonia. This was one of our earliest casesand was undertaken before we had a satisfactory table-extension whichensures free respiration during this particular operation.
Interstate medical journal . which was made; so thatnow, in this series of thirty-one cases, we have had three deaths directlyattributable to the operation. One of them—I will show you the brain—was a patient with a typical cerebellopontine lesion—the benign endo-thelioma which nestles in the recess of the medulla, pons and cerebellum—a lesion we now regard as very favorable for operation. The patientunfortunately died from pneumonia. This was one of our earliest casesand was undertaken before we had a satisfactory table-extension whichensures free respiration during this particular operation. Death occurredin a second case on the operating table; the patient, who was completelyblind and deaf, had a large vascular tumor involving the region of thecorpora quadrigemina. in the investigation of which bleeding occurredinto the fourth ventricle, with immediate respiratory failure. In theother cases, with the exception of the one I will refer to in a moment,there have been no operative complications Fig. 3. Case II. Photograph taken prior to patients discharge from the hos-pital, three weeks after operation, to show usual solidly healed andinconspicuous wound.
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