Hydrocephalus

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 9 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; fever; meningitis; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; papilloedema; meningitis; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports. notes and correspondence relating to male from outside Great Britain aged 27 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; falure of vision; amblyopia; diplopia; unsteadiness; intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; and neurinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; hydrocephalus; glioma; cyst; and ependymoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 53 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: deafness; unsteadiness; fainting; headache; acoustic neuroma; tremor; hydrocephalus; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; meningioma; vomiting; skull fracture; medulloblastoma; nystagmus; hydrocephalus; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.

Typed case summary, charts, death certificate, autopsy report, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; failure of vision; headache; vomiting; fits; hydrocephalus; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 5 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; unsteadiness; spasticity; hydrocephalus; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 23 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; deafness; hydrocephalus; and pinealoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 1 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: meningocele; hydrocephalus; and spina bifida. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.