Neoplasms

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 4 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; papilloedema; neck rigidity; headache; and incontinence. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; gross disability of gait; scoliosis; crural pain; spinal neurioma; and thigh pain. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Chart, note and correpondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: elephantiasis of leg; sciatic pain; metastatic involvement of nerve; and tumour mass in iliac fossa. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 77 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; anosmia; vascular hypertension; loss of vision; proptosis; and 6th nerve palsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 65 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: osteoma frontal sinus; csf rhinorrhea; epilepsy; cerebral pneumatocele; headache; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: chromophobe pituitary adenoma; post operative brain swelling; deterioration of vision; hemianopia; and rhinorrhea. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, photographs and report relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 56 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma; extra-pyramidal syndrome; coma; brainstem ischaemia; hand tremor; and shuffling gait. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: left sphenoidal meningioma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: Foster-Kennedy syndrome; homonymous hemianopia; hemiparesis; incontinence; oligodendroglioma; and sarcomatous change in a meningioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, charts, autopsy report, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar medulloblastoma; metastases to brain stem and spinal cord; dysarthria; deterioration of balance; and nystagmus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.