Abstract:Four years after the first hypophysectomy in a patient suffering from breast cancer 22 > 25 we started in november 1955 the section of the pituitary stalk 18 for three reasons :(a) Surgical hypophysectomy was often proved to be incomplete when at post mortem one takes care to estimate the significance of the anterior lobe remnants through serial sections of the decalcified sella turcica 16 ; (b) Furthermore if sella turcica, pituitary stalk and hypothalamus are removed together and included in the same block o… Show more
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