University of Nebraska Medical Center DigitalCommons@UNMC MD Theses Special Collections 5-1-1934 The routes of intracranial infections E. Lloyd Wilbur University of Nebraska Medical Center This manuscript is historical in nature and may not reflect current medical research and practice. Search PubMed for current research. Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/mdtheses Part of the Medical Education Commons Recommended Citation Wilbur, E. Lloyd, "The routes of intracranial infections" (1934). MD Theses. 364. https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/mdtheses/364 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at DigitalCommons@UNMC. It has been accepted for inclusion in MD Theses by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UNMC. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. THE ROUTES OF INTRACRANIAL INFECTIONS SENIOR THESIS 1934 E. Lloyd Wilbur April 13th, 1934 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section I Page Anatomical Considerations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 Section II The Routes of Infection - 31 Section III Case Histories -------------------- 40 Section IV SUmmary and Conclusions ---------------- 45 Bibliography --------------------- 50 PREFACE This thesis is written to discuss the anatomy of the skull and its contained structures in regard to intra oranial complioations due to preexisting routes. There is no attempt to discuss olinical medicine other than in a dir eot connection with these preexisting routes. In this way the dangerous potentialities of certain common infectious and pyogenio conditions may be more olearly understood and carefully watched for. To t~roughly comprehend these. dan gerous potentialities a knowledge of the anatomy of the skull and its ~ontents is essential. This thesis is written to mak~ this anatomy a basis of an understanding of certain types of intracranial pathology especially those arising as complications of previous pyogenic infeotious processes.