Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head . ncrease in intracranial pressure. Cases of symptomatic migraine with positive roentgen find-ings have been already mentioned in the sections on Cranioste- 248 ROENTGEN DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE HEAD nosis (Case 1, page 76), Brain Tumors (Case 13, page 223), andHypophyseal Tumors (Case 1. page 193). Here may be citedthe following eases: Case 1.—Male, twenty-two years old. Had suffered for years from mi-graine. His mother was also a sufferer from migraine. Patient had ashort, broad and high skull vault (turricephalies). His mother was said tohave e
Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head . ncrease in intracranial pressure. Cases of symptomatic migraine with positive roentgen find-ings have been already mentioned in the sections on Cranioste- 248 ROENTGEN DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE HEAD nosis (Case 1, page 76), Brain Tumors (Case 13, page 223), andHypophyseal Tumors (Case 1. page 193). Here may be citedthe following eases: Case 1.—Male, twenty-two years old. Had suffered for years from mi-graine. His mother was also a sufferer from migraine. Patient had ashort, broad and high skull vault (turricephalies). His mother was said tohave exactly the same shaped head. On the roentgenogram, one saw that the sutures were for the most partobliterated, and the convolutional impressions eroded deeply. Case 2.—M. G., male, twenty-one years of age. For the previous twoyears the patient had suffered periodic attacks of headache, lasting severalhcurs, and with this he was slightly nauseated. The headache made itsappearance on one side and then became general. Patient had a typical. Fig. 94.—A microcephalic type of turricephalus. Photograph of Case 2. turi:cephalus of the microcephalic type with a receding forehead. Hori-zontal circumference was 52 cm. Exophthalmus. Large deformed nose.(See Fig. 94.) The roentgenogram showed the skull thickness to be variable. Towardthe vertex it reached !» mm. and in the temporal region it was very were eroded impressions. Case 3.—Boy, seven years old. Typical migraine. Turricephaly. The roentgenogram showed extremely deepened impressions which, inplaces, had made the hone as thin as paper. (See Schiiller, Wiener TclinischeWochenschrift, L908, p. 70,1.) Case 4.—Boy, eleven years old with typical migraine. The roentgenogram permitted the recognition of the characteristics of a hydrocephalus, and enabled one to complete the history of a luetic etiology.(See same reference as in Case ?>.) INTRACRANIAL DISEASES 249 This latter case illustrates the well-known close rel
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