Hydrocephalus

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 16 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; dizziness; papilloedema; hydrocephalus; cyst; and craniopharyngioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 4 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; hypertonia; ataxia; and ependymoblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital after several admissions.

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from outside Great Britain aged 5 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; and meningitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 45 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; failure of vision; diplopia; headache; intracranial pressure; and thickening of calvaria. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, photographs, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; and oligodendroglioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 23 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: headache; diplopia; hydrocephalus; and meningoencephalitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 0 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; spina bifida; and cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: nausea; vomiting; visual failure; optic neuritis; hydrocephalus; glioma; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: fainting; vomiting; failure of vision; astereognosis; papilloedema; hydrocephalus; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 10 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.