Neoplasms

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; and compression paraplegia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts, note, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: pituitary chromophobe adenoma; venous thrombosis; blindness; venous infarction; post-operative psychosis; and Simmons cachexia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 65 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant glioma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant oligodendroglioma; epilepsy; hemiplegia; hemianopia; and hemianaesthesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: staggering gait; glioblastoma multiforme; headache; vomiting; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; cerebral tumour; brain swelling; and bronchopneumonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, drawings, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: cystic cerebral ependymoma; cystic left parietal tumour; limb weakness; papilloedema; epileptic attacks; hemiparesis; expressive dysphasia; and hyperaesthesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: aphasia; papilloedema; spastic hemiparesis; vomiting; limb weakness; hemianopia; and infiltrating glioma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, chart and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: spinal metastasis; adenocarcinoma; backache; paraplegia; primary carcinoma; and anorexia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes, autopsy report, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: headache, vomiting, confusion; hemiparesis; papilloedema; astrocytoma; cyst; and mental changes. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.