Surgical Procedures, Operative

Correspondence, typed case summary, charts, report and notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; personality change; visual hallucinations; and disturbances of taste and smell. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, typed case summary, charts, report and notes relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 55 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: gross athetoid movements of right arm; and brain lesion. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, typed case summary, charts, report and notes relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: right posterior communicating aneurysm; headache; vomiting; and drowsiness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, reports, typed case summary, charts and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 13 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma (left parietal); epilepsy; weakness of right lower face; and right lower quadrant hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: malignant glioma (right fronto-parietal); headache; vomiting; and left facial weakness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence, X-ray films, typed case summary, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 51 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: prolapsed intervertebral disc; low back pain; bilateral sciatica; and numbness in calves. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 6 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: fracture of skull; head injury; weakness in left limbs; and epileptic twitching of left limbs. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report and charts relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: metastatic carcinoma (cervical spine - bronchogenic); paralysis; spondylosis; and chronic bronchitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, reports, notes, correspondence and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; numbness and tingling in left side; and unconsciousness. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, notes and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: ?primary intracerebral haemorrhage of possible arteriosclerotic origin; neck stiffness; left-sided paralysis; and slurring of speech. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.