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Canavan Disease

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

PR2.19086, 1957-1958

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.19086
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, notes, typed case summary and autopsy report relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 0 at first examination in 1957. Conditions mentioned include: spongy degeneration of Canavan; mild degree of hydrocephalus; "delayed development"; and vomiting. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1957-1958
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)