TY - JOUR
T1 - A pituitary tumor turned-to-be a glioma
T2 - A surgical case from the Madras General Hospital 1928
AU - Raman, Ramya
AU - Raman, Anantanarayanan
N1 - Includes bibliographical references
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - A three-page paper entitled 'A case of glioma (embryonal neurocytoma) of the brain simulating pituitary tumour,' written by K. G. Pandalai, Surgeon at the Madras General Hospital, and T. B. Menon, Pathologist at the Madras Medical College, was published in the Indian Medical Gazette. This paper refers to an occasional finding of a brain tumor (a glioma), presurgically diagnosed as a pituitary tumor, in 1928. This was close to the period when surgeons across the developed world believed in that cancers were by no means common among the native people of India as it was in Europe. Leopold Rogers of the Bengal Medical Service, Calcutta, in 1925 refuted this belief indicating that malignant tumors were equally common in Bengal (India) and England. Nevertheless, this report by Pandalai and Menon strikes a unique chord since the tumor was subsequently determined as a glioma-an embryonal neurocytoma-with adequate evidences drawn from the state-of-the-Art volume 'A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis' by Percival Bailey and Harvey Cushing published in Philadelphia in 1926. This Pandalai-Menon report impresses as pioneering and trailblazing, on a brain tumor detected in 1928, given that earliest exclusive departments of neurosurgery were established in Christian Medical College, Vellore, and Madras Medical College, Madras, by Jacob Chandy and Balasubramanian Ramamurthi, respectively, nearly two decades later.
AB - A three-page paper entitled 'A case of glioma (embryonal neurocytoma) of the brain simulating pituitary tumour,' written by K. G. Pandalai, Surgeon at the Madras General Hospital, and T. B. Menon, Pathologist at the Madras Medical College, was published in the Indian Medical Gazette. This paper refers to an occasional finding of a brain tumor (a glioma), presurgically diagnosed as a pituitary tumor, in 1928. This was close to the period when surgeons across the developed world believed in that cancers were by no means common among the native people of India as it was in Europe. Leopold Rogers of the Bengal Medical Service, Calcutta, in 1925 refuted this belief indicating that malignant tumors were equally common in Bengal (India) and England. Nevertheless, this report by Pandalai and Menon strikes a unique chord since the tumor was subsequently determined as a glioma-an embryonal neurocytoma-with adequate evidences drawn from the state-of-the-Art volume 'A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis' by Percival Bailey and Harvey Cushing published in Philadelphia in 1926. This Pandalai-Menon report impresses as pioneering and trailblazing, on a brain tumor detected in 1928, given that earliest exclusive departments of neurosurgery were established in Christian Medical College, Vellore, and Madras Medical College, Madras, by Jacob Chandy and Balasubramanian Ramamurthi, respectively, nearly two decades later.
KW - Embryonal neurocytoma
KW - Harvey Cushing
KW - Krishnan Gopinath Pandalai
KW - Percival Bailey
KW - surgery
KW - Thottakat Bhaskara Menon
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U2 - 10.4103/ijc.IJC_12_19
DO - 10.4103/ijc.IJC_12_19
M3 - Article
C2 - 30829288
AN - SCOPUS:85062394346
SN - 0019-509X
VL - 55
SP - 424
EP - 427
JO - Indian Journal of Cancer
JF - Indian Journal of Cancer
IS - 4
ER -