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The Uses of Nuclear Disintegration in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Tumor

  • William H. Sweet, M.D.†

Abstract

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IN THE utilization of isotopes to aid in the clinical management of intracranial tumors that has been developed at this hospital in the past few years, we have been aided by many workers. The time at which an elaborate addition to the hospital's investigative facilities is brought into action is perhaps a suitable time to draw attention to the diversity of talents that has been required for making some headway in such a limited field as that of brain tumors.About four years ago, when Dr. Selverstone and I were receiving our first education in the use of radioactive isotopes . . .

Funding and Disclosures

* Presented at the dedication of the Research Building of the Massachusetts General Hospital, May 16, 1951.

A review of investigations carried out on the localization of brain tumors at operation with radioactive isotopes in collaboration with Dr. Bertram Selverstone and on the potentialities of their treatment by the products of atomic disintegration at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Grateful acknowledgment is due to Drs. G. Brownell, M. Javid, C. Robinson, A. K. Solomon and J. C. White.

This study has been supported by the Atomic Energy Commission, Contracts AT(30–1) — 1093, AT(30–1) — 730. by funds from an Institutional Grant of the American Cancer Society to the Massachusetts General Hospital and by a gift from an anonymous donor, administered by Dr. J. C. White. The active collaboration of scientific workers at Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other institutions is also acknowledged.

Author Affiliations

BOSTON

From the Neurosurgical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, and the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York.

†Assistant professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School; associate visiting neurosurgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital.

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