Intracranial Pressure

Typed case summary, charts, photographs, report, note, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 6 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculous meningitis; primary pulmonary tuberculosis; drowsiness; headache; papilloedema; inracranial pressure; and otitis media. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: septum lucidum ependymoblastoma; raised intracranial pressure; headache; deteriorating vision; epileptic manifestations; and papilloedema. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 21 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: aqueduct stenosis; hydrocephalus; raised intracranial pressure; headache; vomiting; blurred vision; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, drawing, reports charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: secondary cerebral neoplasm; facial weakness; intracranial pressure; epilepsy; nystagmus; headache; and carcinoma of lung. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: fractured skull; cerebral lacerations; eodema; head injury; hemiparesis; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, report, postmortem report and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma; epilepsy; seizures; weakness; hemiplegia; vomiting; headaches; amnesia; dysrythmia; papilloedema; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 28 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; vasomotor disturbance; unsteadiness; and intracranial pressure. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 66 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: acoustic neurinoma; dizziness; vomiting; gait disorder; deafness; tremor; numbness; intracranial pressure; arteriosclerosis; and pneumonoconiosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, photograph, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 63 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: acoustic neurinoma; deafness; increased intracranial pressure; unsteadiness of gait; headache; double vision; auricular fibrillation; and air ambolus. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and autopsy report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 19 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: otitis media; vomiting; papilloedema; headache; lumbar pain; confusion; intracranial pressure; photophobia; cerebellar ataxia; intracranial thrombophlebitits; TB meningitis; hydrocephalus; B. Pyocyaneus meningitis; and hemiballismus. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.