Abstract
According to Henschen, 53.5% of brain tumors are glioma (spongioblastoma, astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma and glioblastoma) . Two cases brain tumor were autopsied.
Case 1. 45 yr. old male. The patient complained of headache, turbidity of conscious-ness and paralysis of the right facial nerve since December, 1955. Attacks of convulsions and loss of consciousness occured repeatedly and he died in June, 1956. A diagnosis of oligodendroglioma (rather undifferntiated) was made following the autopsy.
Case 2. 37 yr. old female. The patient complained of amnesia, headache, disturbance of sight and obesity since November, 1955. She died in February of the following year. Histologically, glioblastoma multiforme with transitional figures to neuroblastoma was confirmed.
