Surgical Procedures, Operative

Typed case summary, photographs, autopsy report, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: communicating hydrocephalus; birth injury; subdural and subarachnoid haemorrhage; and post-operative meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, drawing, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; epileptic attacks; frontal tumour; papilloedema; loss of vision; hemiparesis; and urinary retention. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: Jacksonian epilepsy; and porencephalic cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, notes, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: flexor spasms; fracture dislocation of lower dorsal spine; contusion of spinal cord; and spastic eversion of feet. Surgical and 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.

Typed case summary, chart and reports relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: glioblastoma multiforme; and temporal lobe tumour. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: venous sinus thrombosis; ptosis; external hydrocephalus; ear infection; papilloedema; and third and sixth nerve lesions. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note, report, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: carcinoma of rectum; facial palsy; hemiplegia; cerebral metastases; papiloedema; and parietal lobe syndrome. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 32 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: adeno-carcinoma of pelvic colon; headache; and cerebral metastases. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; degenerative arterial disease; post traumatic hydrocephalus; head injury; subdural haematoma; hemiparesis; contusional cortical damage; and akinesia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.