NONSURGICAL TREATMENTIn the introduction we have pointed out that in our experience pituitary irradiation and testosterone have proved ineffective in bringing the disease under control. In his original papers Cushing advocated x-ray therapy to the pituitary body. It was tried in 17 patients of this series; in several of these there has been transitory subjective or objective evidence of improvement; in only one (Case 6) has sufficient physical improvement associated with changes in objective laboratory data indicated clearly that a remission followed x-ray therapy. The patient's early history has already been reported by Albright and Reinfenstein.45 Case 6. An . . .
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