RT Journal
A1 RANDALL BX
T1 Four cases of cerebellar abscess: One success, two autopsies.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD November 11
VO XXXIII
IS 20
SP 1185
OP 1187
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.92450720001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.92450720001001
AB The serious complications of ear disease have grown increasingly frequent since the influenza epidemics came and continue with us, and increasing post-mortem and surgical experience is clearing up the mystery which used to surround many of them. Better treatment of the acute and chronic suppurations is lessening the danger which they entail; rational surgery of the tympanum and mastoid, less timid and tardy in the hands of many than it formerly was with the few then thought very radical, is saving many a case half over the verge; and the clinical recognition of intracranial disease is revealing many of the operable cases before all chance of success has passed. Yet cases will continue to offer many enigmatic or contradictory signs, only to be unraveled in the autopsy; and unexpected complications will be met in exploratory surgical intervention; and the following cases, if lacking in brilliancy, may yet have very practical