University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: headache; infected operation wound; metastasis; left parital tumour; cerebral oedema; dysphagia; and primary tumour in esophagus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and notes relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 66 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: metastatic carcinoma of neck; facial palsy; deafness; dysphagia; aspiration pneumonia; and impairement of functions of cranial nerves. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, handwritten notes, reports, charts, autopsy report and neuropathology report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: dysphagia; dysarthria; ataxia; and intercranial spread of neoplasm from bronchogenic carcinoma. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.