Astrocytoma

Typed case summary, reports, charts, autopsy reports, photographs and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; headache; intracranial pressure; glioblastoma; and meningioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report, charts, autopsy reports, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; headache; dizziness; and epilepsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, report and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 18 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar astrocytoma; vomiting; headache; double vision; and nystagmus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 36 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: tremor; progressive extra-pyramidial syndrome; lesions in basal ganglia; paralysis agitans; and infiltrating astrocystoma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, x-ray films, photograph, autopsy report and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: anaplastic astrocytoma; cerebral tumour; bronchopneumonia; diplopia; headache; vomiting; staggering; drowsiness; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 5 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma of pons; hydrocephalus; multiple cranial nerve palsies; brainstem glioma; drowsiness; incontinence; facial paresis; and headache. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, note and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; glioblastoma multiforme; epileptic attack; drowsiness; and raised intracranial pressure. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cystic malignant astrocytoma; glioblastoma multiforme; dysphasic difficulties; and headache. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, notes, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; brainstem haemorrhages; bronchopneumonia; epilepsy; aphasia; and hemiparesis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report, charts and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; glioblastoma multiforme; coma; hypotonia; and hemipareis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.