Neoplasms

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 60 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: right parietal meningioma; grand mal attacks; vertigo; and vomiting. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: subdural hygroma; generalised convulsions; vomiting; and facial paresis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence and typed case summary relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 22 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: ganglion neuroma; walking difficulty; and paraplegia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, black-and-white photograph, typed case summary, autopsy reports, charts, reports and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: glioma (astrocytoma, left basal nuclear); vomiting; personality changes; and dyspepsia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence, typed case summary, charts, reports and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: facial pain; carcinoma; diplopia; and visual hallucinations. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes, autopsy report, reports, correspondence and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 64 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: craniopharyngioma; pulmonary congestion and oedema; hypertension; and bilateral hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Notes, autopsy report, reports, correspondence, typed case summary and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: carcinoma of left breast (hypophysectomy); breathlessness; anaemia; and left pleural effusion. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, notes and reports relating to male patient from outside Great Britain first examined in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: angioblastic meningioma; right homonymous hemianopia; and blindness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, typed case summary, autopsy report, black-and-white photographs, charts, notes and reports relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; aqueduct stenosis; blurring of vision; and bilateral papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Charts, typed case summary, correspondence, reports and notes relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 44 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; headache; convulsion; and vomiting. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.