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Surgery St. Louis, 35/3. - March, 1954, 8°, pp.346-349, orig. self wrappers. Offprint! From the Departments of Pathology, Psychiatry and Neurology, and Surgery, Baylor University College of Medicine and Veterans Administrations Hospital. "METASTASIS to the brain from carrinoma of the lung occurs frequently. While this is generally conceded, information is not available as to how often it occurs in a substantial number of consecutive patients. The rensons are that authorization for necropsy may not be obtainable and the brain may not be included in the examination. During the past three and one half years (July 21. 1949. to Jan. 20, 1953) in this Veterans Administration Hospital the authorization for post-mortem examination was consistently 90 per cent or over, and in nearly 95 per cent of these cases the brain was included in the examination. Furthermore, the patients were almost exclusively men in the third through the ninth decades of life, yielding a large percentage of patients with carcinoma. During this period, among 891 necropsies there were exactly 100 performed on patients with carcinoma of the lung, and in 92 of these the brain was included in the examination. An analysis of the 100 cases was undertaken to determine the frequency of metastatic involvement of the brain from carcinoma of the lung and to provide information as to which cell type is most likely to do so. An attempt was also made to determine from clinical data the time relation between the appearance of the neoplasm in the lung and the metastasis in the brain." Halpert, et al. Béla Halpert (1875-1965) William S. (Straus) Fields (1913-2004) Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908-2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades.