Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head . yseal tumor. It was the size of an egg and had 192 ROENTGEN DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE HEAD burrowed deeply into the base of the brain. (Wiener klinische Wochen-schrift, 1911, p. 109.) Case —Z., male, twenty-three years of age. Obesity, blindness, andprogressively increasing dementia. On the roentgenogram one could see that the body of the sphenoid andthe dorsum sella? had undergone complete destruction. The postmortemrevealed a tumor the size of a childs fist in the sella with extension to-ward the base of the brain and invasion of the right t
Roentgen diagnosis of diseases of the head . yseal tumor. It was the size of an egg and had 192 ROENTGEN DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE HEAD burrowed deeply into the base of the brain. (Wiener klinische Wochen-schrift, 1911, p. 109.) Case —Z., male, twenty-three years of age. Obesity, blindness, andprogressively increasing dementia. On the roentgenogram one could see that the body of the sphenoid andthe dorsum sella? had undergone complete destruction. The postmortemrevealed a tumor the size of a childs fist in the sella with extension to-ward the base of the brain and invasion of the right trigeminal skull base in the region of the sphenoid bone, the clivus, and thepetrosal ridges was eroded. A connection extended from the tumor in thehypophysis to a yet greater tumor in the right frontal lobe. Case 5.—B. H., male, thirty-two years of age. Disturbance of The roentgenogram showed total destruction of the body of the sphenoidbone and the dorsum sella1 with thinning of the anterior clinoid Fig. 71.—Sketch of the sella in Case 2, page 191. The dorsum is entirely sharp points that appear on the floor of the sella are in reality the outline ofridges or spines on the floor of the middle cranial fossa. R. Ridge on floor of themiddle cranial fossa. F. Floor of sella. SS. Posterior wall of the sphenoidal Middle cranial fossa. PS. Planum sphenoidale. O. Roof of orbit. ACP. An-terior clinoid process. In the roentgenogram made a year previously there had been considerablyless erosion. (Wiener Minische Wochensohrift, 1903 and 1905, articles byA. Fuchs.) Case 6.—L., male, twenty-eight years of age. Extreme obesity for manyyears. Occasional headaches and epileptic attacks. Impotence. The roentgenogram disclosed a total destruction of the body of thesphenoid bone. (See Redlich and Schiiller, Case 27.) Case 7.—F. A., male, forty years old. The patient had the generalappearance of a eunuch. In the roentgenogram the
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