"Analysis of Clinical Errors and Delays in the Diagnosis of Brain Tumor" by Daniel G. Santer
 

Date of Award

12-1949

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Medical

Abstract

The problem to be discussed in this thesis is the errors and delays in diagnosis and wrong diagnoses and the reasons for them found in seventy unselected cas·es of ~rain tumors proven by operation and/or au.topsy at the Milwaukee County General Hospital. Ro attempt has been ma.de in the following work to classify brain tumors as such. The only criterion made by the author for the inclusion of a case record were autopsy findings, biopsy reports, and conclusive findings at operation which left no doubt in the mind of the surgeon as to the nature of the intracranial lesion. No interest was shown in this work in the actual type of neoplasm uncovered, for the only purpose was to establish that a primary intracranial neoplasm was present. The proof of this and the differentiation of the type was left to the pathologist and the neurosurgeon. It is not the purpose of the author to discuss this whole problem from the point of view of a neurologist or a neurosurgeon, but to approach it from the point of view of the general practitioner and the internist. Very little appears in the medical literature with this approach in mind; consequently, the bibliography in this thesis is limited.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Internal Medicine, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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