Orbital tumors : results following the transcranial operative attack / by Walter E. Dandy.

  • Dandy, Walter Edward, 1886-1946.
Date:
1942
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Credit: Orbital tumors : results following the transcranial operative attack / by Walter E. Dandy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would result by the gravity of the unsupported brain, and because all of the orbital growth was in the orbit. For these reasons, and also because of the very slow growth of the tumor and its diffuse nature, it seemed wiser to attack the orbital roof from below” (Fig. z). A concavity resulted in the orbital roof after chiseling away a large mass of this bone. Eight years later the patient had no headache. The prop¬ tosis of the right eye persisted, though to a lesser degree than observed before the operation. The patient was alive and well in January, 1940 (Fig. 3). She has been free of headaches since the operation and has carried on her activities as a Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 2. Case 2.5. Diffuse osteoma of the skull and orbit with exoph¬ thalmos and downward displacement of the eye (cf. Figs. 1 and 3). This picture was taken after removal of an osteophyte from the lesser wing of the sphenoid and chiseling of undersurface of orbital roof. (Photograph 21 years prior to operation for osteoma.) Fig. 3. Same patient after operation. The time interval demon¬ strates the very slow growth of the benign diffuse osteoma.