Astrocytoma

Typed case summary, reports, charts, drawing, note and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; wound sepsis; spastic arm; epilepsy; expressive dysphasia; encephalitis; and difficulty with micturition. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; papilloedema; confusion; Meniere's disease; unsteadiness; and tinnitus. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; papilloedema; headaches; and pyramidal signs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; frontal neoplasm; and glioblastoma multiforme. Patient not examined.

Typed case summary, drawing, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; epileptic attacks; frontal tumour; papilloedema; loss of vision; hemiparesis; and urinary retention. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 54 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; incontinence; epilepsy; papilloedema; 6th nerve paresis; hemianiopia; confusion; and pulmonary embolism. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; fits; hemiparesis; haemmorrhagic glioma; intracerebral haemorrhage; and homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; hemianopia; epileptic attacks; and brachial paralysis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; cerebral tumour; brain swelling; and bronchopneumonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Notes, autopsy report, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 59 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: headache, vomiting, confusion; hemiparesis; papilloedema; astrocytoma; cyst; and mental changes. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.