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Neoplasms

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = LHSA-Dott,Use For = Tumours

Found in 3522 Collections and/or Records:

Procedure drawings [1], c.1940

 Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/1/39
Scope and Contents

Series of six illustrations on one page depicting four masses in a child's brain, likely brain tumours (e.g. glioblastoma) which are having a mass effect, casing brain tissue to be shifted to the left. A craniotomy is preformed, one of the tumours is exposed, arteries supplying the tumour are ligated, and the tumour is removed.

Dates: c.1940

T.S. Clouston: “Two cases of Tumour of the Brain Contrasted”, 1875

 Piece
Identifier: LHB7/14/2/7
Scope and Contents From the Item:

Bound volume of pamphlets and articles by staff from the Royal Edinburgh Asylum.

Dates: 1875