A case of intradural spinal cyst, with operation and recovery / by W.G. Spiller, J.H. Musser and Edward Martin ; with a brief report of eleven cases of tumor of the spinal cord or spinal column, by William G. Spiller.

  • Spiller, William G. (William Gibson), 1863-1940.
Date:
1903
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Credit: A case of intradural spinal cyst, with operation and recovery / by W.G. Spiller, J.H. Musser and Edward Martin ; with a brief report of eleven cases of tumor of the spinal cord or spinal column, by William G. Spiller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Bulletin, March and April, 1903. A CASE OF INTRADURAL SPINAL CYST, WITH OPERATION AND RECOVERY. By W. G. Spiller, M.D., J. H. Musser, M.D., and Edward Martin, M.D. With a Brief Report of Eleven Cases of Tumor of the Spinal Cord or Spinal Column.1 By William G. Spiller, M.D. A. B., a woman, aged twenty-six years, single, in 1898 or 1899 suffered from pain at night in the left side of the sacrum. This pain would awaken her, but by putting an extra pillow under her head she would get relief and be able to go to sleep again. The pain was felt about two nights in a week, but was not present during the day. The suffering could not have been severe, as in most accounts of her condition she made no mention of pain previous to 1901. In April, 1901, she began to have sharp pain, like that of toothache, extend- ing down the front of the left thigh as far as the knee, but never beyond, and confined to the left lower limb, and felt only at night. The pain would usually awaken her about 2 or 3 A.M., and she was able to obtain relief only by sitting up in bed. In October, 1901, the pain still seemed to start in the same spot, and extended across her 1 Read before the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, January 7, 1903.