Neoplasms

Typed case summary, charts, reports, and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: brain tumour; intellectual deterioration; hemiplegia; aphasia; headache; papilloedema; increased intracranial pressure; hydrocephalus; and ischaema of brainstem. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, report, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 36 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; comatose; cerebral glioma; brainstem ishaemia; papilloedema; headache; confusion; and vomiting. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 61 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: pituitary chromophobe adenoma; hemianopia; and cataract. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 61 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: chromophobe pituitary adenoma; paraesthesiae; paratrigeminal syndrome; headache; and senile deterioration. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: painful phantom limb; paraesthesiae; breast carcinoma; and metastatsis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: diplopia; and mixed parotid tumour. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report, report, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma of the pons; 6th nerve palsy; dysdiadochokinesia; and terminal haemorrhage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report, charts, note and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attacks; vomiting; drowsiness; and sphenoidal wing meningioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: third nerve cranial paresis; ophthalmoplegia; intracranial chordoma; proptosis; and diplopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, note and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: carcinoma of cervix; pain syndrome; and tumour in pelvis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.