Hydrocephalus

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; extradural haematoma; drowsiness; mentally backward; skull deformity; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

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

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

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: mental defective; and grand mal fits. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 9 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: mental defective; and behaviour disorder. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, photographs, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: communicating hydrocephalus; thrombophlebitis; meningococcal meningitis; and raised intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; and lumbar meningo-myelocele. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Note, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: meningo-myelocele; double incontinence; and incipient hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, photographs, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 11 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: aqueduct stenosis; increased intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; ataxic gait; headache; and meningitis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: pneumonococcal meningitis; brain damage; physical disability; epilepsy; seizures; hydrocephalus; thrombopheblitis; and mental backwardness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.