Neoplasms

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, autopsy reports and reports relating to female from Scotland ( outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headache; vomiting; unconsciousness; drowsy; poor concentration and memory; hands weak and shaky; obstructive hydrocephalus; suprasellar cyst; pituitary tumour; adenoma; bitemporal hemianopia; somnolence; and weight loss. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, black and white photographs, autopsy report and notes relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headaches; neck and occipital pain; vomiting; amblyopic attacks; diplopia; florid papilloedema; increased intracranial pressure; intracranial hypertension; and neoplasm. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, photographic negatives, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 60 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: deafness; staggering; diplopia; headache; intracranial pressure; acoustic neuroma; and nystagmus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 8 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: diplopia; squint; exophthalmos; and von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, photographs, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 38 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; headache; glioblastoma; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital on second admission.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: spinal cord compression; spasticity; atrophy; and neurinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 63 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; comatose state; papilloedema; and tumour. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 7 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: tumour; vomiting; and laughing attacks. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

typed case summary, notes, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from outside Great Britain aged 29 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: fits; epilepsy; headache; diplopia; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

typed case summary and photographs relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 31 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; failure of vision; hemianopia; and glioblastoma. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.