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Leigh Disease

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A group of metabolic disorders primarily of infancy characterized by the subacute onset of psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, ataxia, weakness, vision loss, eye movement abnormalities, seizures, dysphagia, and lactic acidosis. Pathological features include spongy degeneration of the neuropile of the basal ganglia, thalamus, brain stem, and spinal cord. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

PR1.392, 1931

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.392
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: trigeminal neuralgia; facial pain; deafness; and tinnitus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1931
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE Professor Norman Dott Case Notes

PR1.392, 1931

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.392
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 49 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: trigeminal neuralgia; facial pain; deafness; and tinnitus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1931
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE Professor Norman Dott Case Notes

PR2.9916, 1951-1956

 Item
Identifier: GB239LHB1CC/24/PR2.9916
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and cosrrespondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 46 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: acoustic neurinoma; limb weakness; and deafness. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1956
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)

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