University of Edinburgh Archive and Manuscript Collections

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 4 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; headache; medulloblastoma; vomiting; and spinal 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, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: medulloblastoma; secondary carcinoma; brainstem thrombosis; unsteadiness; and sickness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged2at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar ependymoma; ataxia; incontinence; haemangioma; increased intracranial tension; spinal cord compression; retention of urine; medulloblastoma; and subarachnoid spinal metastasis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, charts, autopsy report, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar medulloblastoma; metastases to brain stem and spinal cord; dysarthria; deterioration of balance; and nystagmus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, autopsy report, photographs, 35mm slide and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 21 at first examination in 1957. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; astrocytoma; medulloblastoma; and spinal metastasis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.