Papilledema

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 1 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: communicating hydrocephalus; aqueduct stenosis; bilateral papilloedema; and vomiting. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, typed case summary, charts, reports and notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 7 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar medulloblastoma; bilateral papilloedema; visual defect; and ataxia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, black-and-white photographs, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral abscess (right temporal); ear pain; right facial palsy; and bilateral papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: right parietal temporal intrinsic malignant neoplasm; generalised headache; vomiting; and bilateral papilledema. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 58 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: metastatic thyroid carcinoma (right parietal/dorsal spine); convulsions; bilateral papilloedema; and left homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar astrocytoma; intermittent headaches; vomiting; and bilateral papilledema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 68 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; subdural haematoma; bilateral papilledema; and unconsciousness. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and autopsy report relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: ruptured aneurysm (left carotid/posterior communicating); subarachnoid haemorrhage; occipital headache and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Charts, correspondence, typed case summary, reports and notes relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: glioma (malignant bifrontal); headaches; epilepsy; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Charts, correspondence, typed case summary, reports and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: mild degree of communicating hydrocephalus; head injury; drowsiness; papilloedema. No treatment given. Patient discharged.