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Arachnoiditis

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Acute or chronic inflammation of the arachnoid membrane of the meninges most often involving the spinal cord or base of the brain.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:

Copies of 'Chronic arachnoiditis and hydrocephalus in the surgical management of acoustic tumours...', 1958

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.123
Scope and Contents

Copies of a paper by Norman Dott, 'Chronic arachnoiditis and hydrocephalus in the surgical management of acoustic tumours - a plea for early operation'. The paper is as delivered, as corrected as submitted for publication. See reference Harris 63 in Coll-32/A.3.

Dates: 1958

PR1.17, 1926-1935

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.17
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 25 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: chronic arachnoiditis; headache; meningitis; obesity; and intracranial pressure. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1926-1935

PR1.25, 1926-1937

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.25
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, reports, photographs, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 11 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: headache; aqueduct stenosis; chronic cisternal arachnoiditis; ataxia; hypermetria; obesity; and hydrocephalus. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died.

Dates: 1926-1937

PR1.26, 1926-1931

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.26
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, reports, photographs, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 16 at first examination in 1926. Conditions mentioned include: headache; chronic cisternal arachnoiditis; hydrocephalus; intracranial pressure; and chronic pericerebellar leptomeningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1926-1931

PR1.444, 1931

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.444
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 9 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; hypotonia; and arachnoiditis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1931

PR1.503, 1932

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.503
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 2 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: glioma; and arachnoiditis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1932

PR3.630, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.630
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and report relating to maledriver fromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 32 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: gross atrophy of leg muscles; drop foot; chronic cystic arachnoiditis; progressive lower neuron paralysis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942

PR3.648, 1942-1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.648
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, drawing, charts and note relating to malesecond lieutenant fromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 26 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: backache; anaesthesia; hyperaesthesia; radiculitis of thoracic spinal roots; fracture of thoracic vertebrae; and arachnoiditis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1943

PR4.679, 1933

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/22/PR4.679
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and typed case summary relating to female from outside Great Britain aged 48 at first examination in 1933. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; headache; facial weakness; and arachnoiditis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1933

PR1.1214, 1936

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1214
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: aphasia; numbness; arachnoiditis; and glioblastoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1936