[Discrepancies between clinical and anatomic diagnoses in the diagnosis of brain tumors]

The presented paper contains some results pertaining to 32 cases of divergent diagnosis in brain tumors according to the data of the prosectorium of the Leningrad N1 psychoneurological nursing home of a hospital type from 1955--1977. The most frequent clinical diagnosis were "atherosclerosis" and "hypertensive disease". Most of the nondetected brain tumors were arachnoendotheliomas. The authors analyze the causes of such discrepant diagnosis and retrospectively consider some problems of treatment.