TRIUMPH OF SURGERY
TUMOUR AT BASE OF BRAIN. SYDNEY DOCTOR’S FEAT. An amazing surgical feat, involving the chipping away of a quantity of bone from the back of a patient’s nose, was perfomed at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, recently, when a pituitary tumour was removed from the base of the patient’s brain. Performed for the first time in Australia, the operation was a triumph of marvellous patience and skill, and was attended by complete success. The usual method of performing this delicate operation is to reach the tumour by cutting at the temple and lifting the brain. The great danger of this method is that tho brain will be torn in the process. On this occasion the top lip of the patient—a middle-aged man—was lifted, and doctors, aided by dozens of instruments, worked between the back of the nose and the harder part of the palate. A perfect knowledge of anatomy was needed, and the surgeon had to guide his instruments by feeling ‘‘bone landmarks,” as he cut away the bone. The operation lasted several hours.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXI, Issue 302, 5 December 1931, Page 5
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