TUMORS OF THE PITUITARY GLAND 



REPORT OF A CASE OF PITUITARY GLIOMA ' 



By Jose S. Hilario ' 



(From the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology, College of Medicine 

 and Surgery, University of the Philippines, Manila, P. I.) 



Two plates 



The absence in the literature of reports of similar pituitary 

 tumors justifies the publication of the present case. Weichsel- 

 baum(2i) was one of the first investigators to whom we owe the 

 description of pituitary cysts, lined with ciliated epithelium, and 

 containing a homogeneous or granular material. Beck (3) and 

 Weigert(22) have described several dermoid cysts of the pituitary 

 body. The first case of neuromyoma made up of striated muscle 

 and medullated nerve fibers was reported by Hale White, (l) 

 Rayer,(i3) Rokitansky,(i6) and Langer(i) have observed several 

 cystic tumors which it is presumed originated from the infundib- 

 ular canal. The first case of lipoma is that of Weichselbaum. (21) 

 The report of two cases of angioma and chondroma, respec- 

 tively, is attributed to Lancereaux. (i) Several cases of adenoma 

 have been encountered (Breitner, (6) Einsenlohr, (8) and Von 

 Hippel(9)). Adami and Nicholls(i) have described an endothe- 

 lioma and a perithelial angiosarcoma. Colloid carcinomata and 

 melanosarcomata have also been reported. Soemmering and 

 Lancereaux (1) found several cases of echinococcus cysts. Battis- 

 combe(7) has reported an abscess. Beadless,(2) Boyce and Bead- 

 less, (5) and Weigert(22) described several caseating tumors; and 

 the description of syphilomata belongs to Lancereaux. (i) 



The above facts prove the absence of reports of pituitary 

 gliomata in the literature, none of the authors cited having 

 reported such a pituitary neoplasm. 



Of the 2,000 autopsies performed in the city, San Lazaro, 

 and Bilibid morgues during five consecutive years, there is no 

 analogous case. 



' Read before the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Philippine Islands Med- 

 ical Association, held in Manila from November 4-7, 1912. 



' Instructor in pathology and bacteriology, College of Medicine and 

 Surgery, University of the Philippines. 



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