Spinal Cord Compression

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: kyphoscoliosis; spinal cord compression; Pott's disease; backache; numbness; leg weakness; and osteomalacia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 68 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: cramp; weight loss; lumbo-sacral root compression; and carcinoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, chart, reports, x-ray film and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: paraplegia; spinal fracture; limb pain; spinal cord compression; spasms; and spasticity. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, charts, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 46 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: leg weakness; paraplegia; back pain; walking difficulty; incontinence; hydronephrosis; and spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; spinal cord compression; and plasma cell myelomatosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 30 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: dorsal haemangioendothelioma; paraesthesiae; leg spasms; spasticity; and spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 64 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: headache; arteriosclerosis; backache; spinal cord compression; and Hodgkin's disease. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, chart, reports and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: reticulum cell sarcoma; paraplegia; and spinal cord compression. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 57 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; limb weakness; spinal cord compression; osteoarthritis; and motor neurone disease. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.