ACOUSTIC TUMOURS.

Abstract

IN the literature the paper of List (1932) covering Cushing's material is the single example of a comprehensive statistical survey of the immediate and late results concerning operations for acoustic tumours. Even List's paper, valuable though it is, does not bring sufficient information to enable the reader to form his own opinion concerning the late results, especially earning capacity and morbidity among the survivors. This scarcity of reports indicates, to my mind, that the results are poor, and I am afraid we must confess that the results of surgery in acoustic tumours are not comparable to those obtained in other types of benign tumours. This, of course, has always been so, only the problems have shifted in so far as we now are not so much concerned with the immediate mortality, which has been reduced to reasonable proportions, but with the late results.