Neoplasms

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 32 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; dizziness; deafness; tinnitus; vomiting; intracranial pressure; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; vomiting; headache; hemianopia; and glioblastoma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; headache; hypotonia; hemianopia; and medulloblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; dizziness; papilloedema; cyst; and angioblastoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: frontal headaches; vomiting; inabilty to concentrate; homonymous hemianopia; abscess; and glioblastoma multiforme. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outide Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; vomiting; staggering in her gait; marked slowness of speech; memory less efficient; incontinence; and cerebral tumour. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, reports, notes, drawings, autopsy report and charts relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 3 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; vomiting; drowsiness; papilloedema; astrocytoma; and glioma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 53 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: slowness; forgetfulness; disorientation; loss of power in both legs; lowering of speech to a whisper; headache; sickness; intracerebral lesion; oedema; and glioma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, autopsy report, drawings and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: numbness in feet and toes; motor symptoms; involuntary jerking of lower limbs; meningioma; brown-sequard syndrome; hyperaesthesia; headache; and carcinoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 42 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: subacute staphylococcal abscesses; periosteal sarcoma; pain in upper abdomen and back; and paraparesis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.