University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Scope and Contents Case summary, chart, correspondence and report relating to female housewife from east Edinburgh aged 42 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: post-irradiation fibrosis; dyspnoea; and metastases in sacrum and ilium. No...

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Typed case summary, correspondence, handwritten notes, reports, charts and photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 78 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: lump on head; breathlessness; enlarged heart; periosteal sarcoma; metastatic thyroid carcinoma; and bowel carcinoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

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Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, charts, report, photograph and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: carcinoma of breast; diffuse metastases; dyspneoa; and cardiac failure. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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Typed correspondence, notes, report, autopsy report and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: breast carcinoma; metastases; dyspnoea; and pulmonary embolism. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.