Pituitary neoplasms
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Neoplasms which arise from or metastasize to the PITUITARY GLAND. The majority of pituitary neoplasms are adenomas, which are divided into non-secreting and secreting forms. Hormone producing forms are further classified by the type of hormone they secrete. Pituitary adenomas may also be characterized by their staining properties (see ADENOMA, BASOPHIL; ADENOMA, ACIDOPHIL; and ADENOMA, CHROMOPHOBE). Pituitary tumors may compress adjacent structures, including the HYPOTHALAMUS, several CRANIAL NERVES, and the OPTIC CHIASM. Chiasmal compression may result in bitemporal HEMIANOPSIA.,Created For = LHSA-Dott,Use For = Pituitary adenoma
Found in 68 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues and papers on transphenoidal operation for pituitary tumours, 1957-1954
File
Identifier: Coll-32/H.14
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Norman Dott and colleagues and papers on transphenoidal operation for pituitary tumours. The material consists of correspondence between Dott and Gilbert Horrax, 1957, correspondence between Dott and H.J. Svien, giving Dott's views and results of treatment, 1964. It includes manuscripts of lectures given by Dott on 'Surgical Diseases of the Pituitary Region' at Pretoria 1957, Aberdeen 1958, Smethwick 1959, and a paper by François L. Deborsu (one of Dott's students)...
Dates:
1957-1954
PR1.654, 1932-1933
Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.654
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 41 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: headache; pituitary adenoma; and acromegaly. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.
Dates:
1932-1933
PR1.657, 1933
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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.657
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 64 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: failure of vision; head injury; and chromophobe pituitary adenoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.
Dates:
1933
PR1.664, 1933-1934
Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.664
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: visual difficulties; hemianopia; optic atrophy; and pituitary chromophobe adenoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.
Dates:
1933-1934
PR1.732, 1934-1948
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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.732
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 45 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: acromegaly; polydipsia; polyuria; headache; leg weakness; and pituitary adenoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
Dates:
1934-1948
PR1.919, 1935-1963
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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.919
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: obesity; hirsutism; headache; encephalitis; and pituitary adenoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
Dates:
1935-1963
PR1.998, 1935-1948
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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.998
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, charts, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1935. Conditions mentioned include: headache; syphilis; failure of vision; and pituitary tumour. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
Dates:
1935-1948
PR2.368, 1941-1955
Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.368
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, typed case summary, autopsy report, charts, black and white photographs and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 43 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; dizziness; eye sight failing; pituitary adenoma; and hemianopia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
Dates:
1941-1955
PR2.383, 1941-1956
Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.383
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothiansaged 49 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: loss of hearing; eye sight diminishing; diplopia; pituitary chromophobe adenoma; angina pectoris; hemianopia; apathetic; arterial hypertension; and aortic incompetence. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
Dates:
1941-1956
PR2.475, 1941-1943
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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.475
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 38 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: euphoria; polydipsia; pituitary tumour; retrobulbar chiasmal neuritis; arsenic poisoning; blindness; and basal encephalitis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.
Dates:
1941-1943