Paraplegia

Scope and Contents Typed case summary, reports, notes and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 63 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: multiple spinal secondaries from carcinoma of breast; paraplegia; and retention of urine. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Notes and correspondence relating to female patient from outside Great Britain aged 27 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: cervical spinal fibrosarcoma; compression of spinal cord; and paraplegia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Notes, reports, typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: spinal neuroblastoma; epidural abscess; paraplegia; and neck rigidity. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, typed case summary, reports, charts and notes relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: old spinal injury; spinal lesion (infective polyneuritis or syringomyelia); paraplegia; and shoulder pain. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, typed case summary, charts and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 67 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: radiculitis (not yet diagnosed); paraplegia; prolapsed intervertebral disc; and pain in groin. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.