Surgical Procedures, Operative

Typed case summary, report, correspondence, notes, black-and-white photographs and chart relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 38 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the spine; contusional injury of spinal cord; urinary incontinence; and paraplegia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and chart relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 37 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: chronic backache; left-sided sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; and hypoaesthesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, black-and-white photograph, autopsy report, correspondence and chart relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 22 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: intracerebral haemorrhage; left flaccid hemiparesis; concussional head injury; and generalised brain oedema with tentorial impaction. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, black-and-white photographs, autopsy report and chart relating to male sailor aged 22 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: extensive right parietal subdural abscess; acute pyogenic leptomeningitis spreading from sub-acute empyema of right frontal sinus; and photophobia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, notes, correspondence and chart relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: external hydrocephalus following a concussional head injury; papilloedema; and "blackouts" of unknown aetiology. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to male airman aged 25 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: concussional head injury; scalp lacerations; fracture of base of skull; and peripheral left facial palsy. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 30 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: chronic right sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; gluteal pain; and lumbar scoliosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 32 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: chronic backache and right-sided sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; and compression sciatic neuritis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 42 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: left-sided sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; chronic backache; and left compression sciatic neuritis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and charts relating to male airman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: sciatica due to prolapsed intervertebral disc; chronic backache; and paraesthesiae. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.