Surgical Procedures, Operative

Typed correspondence, notes, reports, charts and x-rays relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: torticollis; atlanto-axoid subluxation; abscess; and streptococcal cellulitis infection. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; extradural haematoma; unconsciousness; brain stem ischaemia; and intracranial pressure. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 32 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; and sciatica. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 22 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: fractured skull; otorrhoea; head injury; concussion; deafness; and cerebro-spinal fluid fistula. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and x-rays relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; and sciatica. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 40 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; and sciatica. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: contusional damage to cervical spine; spinal cord compression; paraparesis; cervical spondylosis; meningitis; gait disorder; osteophytic protrusions; urinary retention; papilloedema; and physical disability. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: traumatic carotid-cavernous fistula; head inury; tinnitus; dimness of vision; headache; eyewatering; oedema; third and sixth nerve paresis; and exophthalmos. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; occipital meningocele; phlebothrombosis; epilepsy; seizures; cerebral damage; intracranial pressure; developmental delay; a vegetable mentally. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed correspondence, notes and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 72 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: paroxysmal trigeminal neuralgia; and facial pain. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.