Astrocytoma

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, notes, reports, drawings, and charts, relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; parietal tumor; and focal fits. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died after several admissions.

Correspondence typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 52 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; herniation; and haemorrhages. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, handwritten notes, correspondence, reports and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; seizure; dysphasia; and malignant astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 66 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: dysphasia; neoplasm; and cerebral astrocytoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; intracranial pressure; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: malignant cerebral astrocytoma; papilloedema; intracranial pressure; cyst; and epilepsy. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts, reports, autopsy report, notes and black-and-white photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: intracranial hypertension; epileptic seizures; papilloedema; psychological deterioration; meningitis; and astrocytoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence, typed case summary, notes, charts and reports relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: epileptic attack; astrocytoma; and tuberculosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, reports, correspondence, charts and black-and-white photographs relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; oedema; and bronchopneumonia. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hosptial.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; dysphasic; and facial paresis. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.