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Books Received for Review
BOOKS RECEIVED
FOR REVIEW
Callander’s Surgical Anatomy. 1157 pages with 1047 $21.00.
Clinical
Endocrinology.
Second $18.00.
Immunity
edition.
La Terapia
By Karl 941 pages
in Pregnancy.
Braxton.
By Barry illustrations.
106 pages,
and
E. Paschkis, Sbraham with 274 illustrations.
By Clarence Malmnas, 54 tables, and 16 figures.
de1 cancro dell’utero.
66 figures,
J. Anson and Walter G. Maddoek. Fourth edition. Philadelphia, 1953, W. B. Saunders Company.
77 tables.
E. Rakoff, and Abraham Cantarow. New York, 1958, Hoeher-Harper.
translated Stockholm,
Edited by Prof. A. Brunschwig. Torino, 1957, Edizioni Minerva
from the Swedish by Viktor 1958, Almquist and Wiksells. 435 pages, Medica.
9 illustrations,
SELECTED ABSTRACTS The American Journal of Pathology May-Jme, 1958. Daniel, Peter M., and Prichard, fn the Goat, p. 433. Tel.
34,
Marjorie
M. L.:
The Effects of Pituitary
Stalk
Section
Thirteen male goats were operated on for section of the pituitary stalk with interThis procedure was done successfully position between the sectioned edges of a wax plate. There was merely simple displacement in 9 cases and in 3 cases section was not achieved. The animals were sacrificed at varying interof the stalk by the pressure of the wax disc. vals, from 25 hours to 29 days with immediate complete nccropsy. Five normal goats were used for a study of the pituitary blood supply by the injection under pressure of a latex compound into the external carotid artery. The results showed that the pituitary glands of the animals sacrificed 25, 52, and 72 hours postoperatively were noticeably shrunken with almost complete infarction of the anNotable is the fact that there was terior lobe, save for a rim of viable hypophyseal cells. an absolute increase in the bulk of viable tissue in the pars distalis in the goats sacrificed Numerous mitotic after one to 3 days and this increased with the longer survival times. figures were discovered around the areas of infarction in specimens sacrificed at one to 3 days. The significant change in the pars intermedia was hypertrophy of that portion as tht= survival time increased. Neural elements in all portions distal to t.he section degenerated. In the animals in which the stalk was merely pushed aside and not severed, there was a localized area of seconddegree infarction to pressure due to encroachment on only a portion of the blood supply. These pituitaries with localized areas of infarction showed relatively the same changes, such retraction, increased mitosis, and hypertrophy, as did those with true section as scarring, of the stalk, only on a more localized scale. The study of the blood supply indicated that the left anterior pituitary and its blood supply were similar to that of man in that the sole blood supply to the anterior lobe was via the hypophyseal portal system in the pituitary stalk. 1366
FOR REVIEW
Callander’s Surgical Anatomy. 1157 pages with 1047 $21.00.
Clinical
Endocrinology.
Second $18.00.
Immunity
edition.
La Terapia
By Karl 941 pages
in Pregnancy.
Braxton.
By Barry illustrations.
106 pages,
and
E. Paschkis, Sbraham with 274 illustrations.
By Clarence Malmnas, 54 tables, and 16 figures.
de1 cancro dell’utero.
66 figures,
J. Anson and Walter G. Maddoek. Fourth edition. Philadelphia, 1953, W. B. Saunders Company.
77 tables.
E. Rakoff, and Abraham Cantarow. New York, 1958, Hoeher-Harper.
translated Stockholm,
Edited by Prof. A. Brunschwig. Torino, 1957, Edizioni Minerva
from the Swedish by Viktor 1958, Almquist and Wiksells. 435 pages, Medica.
9 illustrations,
SELECTED ABSTRACTS The American Journal of Pathology May-Jme, 1958. Daniel, Peter M., and Prichard, fn the Goat, p. 433. Tel.
34,
Marjorie
M. L.:
The Effects of Pituitary
Stalk
Section
Thirteen male goats were operated on for section of the pituitary stalk with interThis procedure was done successfully position between the sectioned edges of a wax plate. There was merely simple displacement in 9 cases and in 3 cases section was not achieved. The animals were sacrificed at varying interof the stalk by the pressure of the wax disc. vals, from 25 hours to 29 days with immediate complete nccropsy. Five normal goats were used for a study of the pituitary blood supply by the injection under pressure of a latex compound into the external carotid artery. The results showed that the pituitary glands of the animals sacrificed 25, 52, and 72 hours postoperatively were noticeably shrunken with almost complete infarction of the anNotable is the fact that there was terior lobe, save for a rim of viable hypophyseal cells. an absolute increase in the bulk of viable tissue in the pars distalis in the goats sacrificed Numerous mitotic after one to 3 days and this increased with the longer survival times. figures were discovered around the areas of infarction in specimens sacrificed at one to 3 days. The significant change in the pars intermedia was hypertrophy of that portion as tht= survival time increased. Neural elements in all portions distal to t.he section degenerated. In the animals in which the stalk was merely pushed aside and not severed, there was a localized area of seconddegree infarction to pressure due to encroachment on only a portion of the blood supply. These pituitaries with localized areas of infarction showed relatively the same changes, such retraction, increased mitosis, and hypertrophy, as did those with true section as scarring, of the stalk, only on a more localized scale. The study of the blood supply indicated that the left anterior pituitary and its blood supply were similar to that of man in that the sole blood supply to the anterior lobe was via the hypophyseal portal system in the pituitary stalk. 1366