University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: cyst; carcinoma; back pain; and spinal cord compression. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; leg numbness; spinal cord compression; and glandular carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: schirrhous carcinoma; spinal cord compression; and paraplegia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; carcinoma; back pain; and spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: secondary spinal carcinoma; paraplegia; and spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, chart, report and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: shoulder pain; spinal metastatic carcinoma; limb weakness; and spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: cramp; weight loss; lumbo-sacral root compression; and carcinoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, chart and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: secondary carcinoma of spine; bronchopneumonia; paraplegia; spinal cord compression; oedema; and bronchogenic carcinoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, x-ray films, note, and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: carcinoma of lung; compresson of cauda equina; pain in lower limbs; and metastatic extradural carcinoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: renal carcinoma; progressive paraplegia; spinal tumour; spinal cord compression; and paralysis of bladder function. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.