Hydrocephalus

Typed case summary, correspondence, handwritten notes, charts and reports relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; communicating hydrocephalus; epilepsy; retarded development; paresis; internal strabismus; and speech indistinctness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 5 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma of pons; hydrocephalus; multiple cranial nerve palsies; brainstem glioma; drowsiness; incontinence; facial paresis; and headache. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Reports and x-ray films relating to female patient aged 11 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar tumour; and hydrocephalus.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: transitional chromophobe adenoma of pituitary; hydrocephalus; blindness; scalp infection; and craniopharyngioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; and spastic hemiparesis. Surgical 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 1954. Conditions mentioned include: meningocoele; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: meningocoele; hydrocephalus; subdural hygroma; wound infection; and backwardness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: aqueduct stenosis; hydrocephalus; tinnitus; neck pain; vomiting; vision disorder; papilloedema; headaches; disorientation; blackouts; and drowsiness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: choroidal papilloma; vomiting; irritability; increased intracranial pressure; hydrocephlaus; 6th nerve paresis; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; hydrocephalus; glioblastoma; facio-brachial paresis; incontinence; dyspahsia; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.