Hydrocephalus

Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; limb spasticity; and blindness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: mental retardation; occipital meningocele; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, drawings, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; diplopia; hand tremor; tachycardia; and interpeduncular subarachnoid pouch. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, x-ray films, notes, reports and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: subarachnoid haemorrhage; headache; vomiting; papilloedema; hydrocephalus; anaemia; and drowsiness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: meningocele; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: external hydrocephalus; and aseptic thrombophelbitis of saggital sinus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Note and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: lumbosacral myelomeningocele; defective development of spinal cord; paralysis; anaesthesia; hydrocephalus; spina bifida; and lack of sphincter control. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 3 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: Arnold chiari malformation; spina bifida; lumbar myelomemingocele; hydrocephalus; congential dislocation of hip; paralysis; and spinal and skull deformities. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

typed case summary, photograph, reports, note, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: cystic craniopharyngioma; epidermoid tumour; papilloedema; hydrocephalus; headache; and leg pain. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: cystic ependymoblastoma; vomiting; collapse; intracranial pressure; subconjunctival haemorrhage; hydrocephalus; and spastic paresis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.