RACIAL AND SEXUAL INCIDENCE OF PRIMARY INTRACRANIAL TUMORS

Abstract

The racial incidence of primary intracranial tumors has received little attention in the literature. Since more than one-half the necropsies at Charity Hospital, New Orleans, have been carried out on Negroes, it seemed that the study of autopsy material from this hospital might be instructive. MATERIAL AND METHOD This study was based on the records of 10,112 consecutive autopsies (1929 to 1942 inclusive) performed on patients between the ages of 1 month and 70 years, the age range of patients with intracranial tumors in this series. In addition, the records of 649 studies of brains made between January 1940 and July 1943 were reviewed and the results of the survey correlated with the facts obtained from the study of the total number of autopsies. The second series was used as a control to indicate any abnormal distribution of brains among the various racial and sexual groups. There were slightly more