Hydrocephalus

Typed case summary, chart, reports, autopsy report, photographs and correpondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; concussion; headache; dimness of vision; hydrocephalus; glioma; and ependymoblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; hydrocephalus; meningitis; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 11 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; glioma; hydrocephalus; tuberculoma; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: neck pain; staggering; hydrocephalus; headache; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 1 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; head injury; squint; papilloedema; intracranial pressure; convulsions; ataxia; and hypotonia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; amenorrhoea; amnesia; epidermoid cyst; fainting; hydrocephalus; and pituitary tumour. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; diarrhoea; gastroenteritis; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, autopsy reports and reports relating to female from Scotland ( outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headache; vomiting; unconsciousness; drowsy; poor concentration and memory; hands weak and shaky; obstructive hydrocephalus; suprasellar cyst; pituitary tumour; adenoma; bitemporal hemianopia; somnolence; and weight loss. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 15 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: headache; unsteadiness; failure of vision; stenosis; astrocytoma; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.