Astrocytoma

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, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 47 at first examination in 1939. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; aphasia; and astrocytoma. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 31 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: fits; vomiting; headache; intracranial pressure; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, drawings and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: failure of vision; headache; nausea; numbness; dizziness; cyst; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and photographs relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: headache; depression; haemorrhages; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 34 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: paresis; headache; diplopia; fits; facial pain; and astrocytoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 20 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: tiredness; vomiting; headache; facial weakness; dizziness; cyst; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: dizziness; headache; diplopia; mental change; hemianopia; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, autopsy report, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; fatigue; hydrocephalus; cyst; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; fits; headache; vomiting; cyst; astrocytoma; and glioblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.