Hydrocephalus

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, reports, charts and x-ray films relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar astrocytoma; epileptic attacks; post-infective hydrocephalus; and arachnoiditis. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, reports, charts and black-and-white photographs relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial pressure; medulloblastoma; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hosptial.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, correspondence, reports, charts and black-and-white photographs relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: ventriculitis; staphylococcal meningitis; abscesses; and hydrocephalus. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts, correspondence, black-and-white photographs and x-ray films relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 8 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; hydrocephalus; blind; and epileptic attack. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, notes and reports relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 8 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; facial paresis; and hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 4 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; head injury; and ataxia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, charts and reports relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 25 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial pressure; deterioration of vision; hydrocephalus; and neurilemmoma. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed report and x-ray relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1966. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 2. Patient not examined. Conditions mentioned include: pneumococcal meningitis; subarachnoid adhesions; head injury; vision disorders; hydrocephalus; coma; vomiting; oedema; papilloedema; and seizure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: pituitary chromophobe adenoma; hydrocephalus; adhesive arachnoiditis; homonymous hemianopia; papilloedema; vision disorders; and intracranial pressure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.