Hypophysectomy in man.

Abstract

I. Technique of Hypophysectomy From the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases; the James Ewing Hospital, Memorial Center and the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. Shown as a scientific exhibit of the Section on Experimental Medicine and Therapeutics at the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, New York, June 3-7, 1957. These studies were supported in part by grants from the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service; the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, and the American Cancer Society. Referral of patients for hypophysectomy was made by the Breast Service, Memorial Center; Norman Treves, M.D., Chief. Other colleagues who collaborated in these studies are Drs. C. P. Rhoads, Henry T. Randall, Frank Adair, Rulon W. Rawson, Charles D. West, M. C. Li, John P. Maclean, John Finkbeiner, George Escher, and Ernest Schwartz; and Miss Constance Swedlin, Mrs.