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Hydrocephalus

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Medical term for fluid on the brain,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 774 Collections and/or Records:

'Hydrocephalus simulating tumour in the production of chiasmal and other parahypophysial lesions', February 1931

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.21
Scope and Contents

Lecture 'Hydrocephalus simulating tumour in the production of chiasmal and other parahypophysial lesions' by Arthur Henry Havens Sinclair and Norman Dott. The paper was given to the North of England Ophthalmological Society, dated February 1931 and is a similar (not identical) paper to Coll-32/D.20. The paper was later published in Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society, vol. 51, 1931, see reference Harris 27 in Coll-32/A.3.

Dates: February 1931

'Infantile hydrocephalus - some physiological, pathological and therapeutic observations', June 1956

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Identifier: Coll-32/D.108
Scope and Contents

Lecture by Norman Dott and F.J. Gillingham, 'Infantile hydrocephalus - some physiological, pathological and therapeutic observations'. The paper was given at Glasgow, dated June 1956.

Dates: June 1956

Midbrain Vascular Lesion board, c.1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/2/23
Scope and Contents

Demonstration board, by Blackwood and Dott with four illustrations of the brain by Clifford Shepley, showing conditions and treatments. Titled "Midbrain Vascular Lesions: Chronic bilateral subdural haematomas; Evacuation - persistence herniation; secondary hydrocephalus; ventricular drainage and spinal injection".

Dates: c.1950

PR1.25, 1926-1937

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.25
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, reports, photographs, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 11 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: headache; aqueduct stenosis; chronic cisternal arachnoiditis; ataxia; hypermetria; obesity; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died.

Dates: 1926-1937

PR1.26, 1926-1931

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.26
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, reports, photographs, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 16 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: headache; chronic cisternal arachnoiditis; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and chronic pericerebellar leptomeningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1926-1931

PR1.33, 1926-1963

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.33
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, reports, drawings, photographs, charts nurses' report books and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 16 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; paresis; medullo-blastoma cerebelli; thrombocytopoenic purpura; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1926-1963

PR1.35, 1926-1927

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.35
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, photographs, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians), aged 5 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: leptomeningitis; spastic paresis; hydrocephalus; and encephalitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1926-1927

PR1.39, 1927-1936

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.39
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, photographs, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 9 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: peri-cerebellar leptomeningitis; astrocytoma; headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; ataxia; and hydrocephalus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1927-1936

PR1.42, 1927

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.42
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians), aged 0 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1927

PR1.43, 1927-1936

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.43
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, photographs, charts, pamphlet, offprint, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 0 at first examination in 1927. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; streptococcal meningitis; headaches; vomiting; and hemianopia. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1927-1936