Craniocerebral Trauma

Typed case summary, autopsy report, report and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 75 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; unconsciouseness; hypertensive cerebral haemorrhage; ventricular hypertrophy; and atheroma of cerebral arteries. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; epilepsy; hemiparesis; and Todd's paresis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: minor head injury; and damage to vestibular aperture. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: fractured skull; head injury; giddiness; diplopia; and c.s.f. rhinorrhoea. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, newspaper cutting, charts, report and note relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 13 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: compound skull fracture; head injury; and facial asymmetry. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: depressed skull fracture; brain injury; head injury; coma; cerebral oedema; spastic limbs; flexor and abductor spasms; and foot drop. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Note, chart and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 85 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: post traumatic headaches; head injury; and arteriosclerotic Parkinsonism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Autopsy report relating to female patient aged 46 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fractured tibia and fibula; traumatic pericarditis; pulmonary oedema; petechial haemorrhages in brain; and liver trauma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, note and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; and early hypertensive encephalopathy. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: subdural haematoma; head injury; cerebral arteriosclerosis; confusion; and pyramidal sign. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.