University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, chart, report, autopsy report, tracer card, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: papilloma; cerebral metastases; comas; epilepsy; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 18 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: headache; fibrosarcoma; papilloedema; shoulder pain; failure of vision; synoviosarcoma; hydrocephalus; ependymoblastoma; and metastasis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: ataxia; head injury; medulloblastoma; hydrocephalus; and spinal metastases. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: bronchogenic carcinoma; multiple intracranial metastases; vomiting; headache; raised intracranial pressure; internal hydrocephalus; facial weakness; and brainstem compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 64 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral metastasis; primary thyroid carcinoma; hydrocephalus; venous sinus thrombosis; hemianopia; headache; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, typed case summary, notes, charts, autopsy report and reports relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: bronchial carcinoma; secondary deposit in brain and suprarenal; communicating hydrocephalus; and frontal headache. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Reports, correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: nasal melanoma with dissemination in meninges; hydrocephalus; and dysphasia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.