Brain Abscess
Found in 197 Collections and/or Records:
PR3.1091, 1943
Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 27 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the head; contusional injury of right hemisphere; left temporal lobe abscess; and dysphasia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR3.1137, 1943-1948
Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male sailor from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 19 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: multiple cranial osteomyelitis; right occipital cerebral abscess; infective pyaemia; and localised epileptic attack. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR3.1364, 1944-1950
Typed case summary, notes, correspondence, charts and report relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 23 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: acute multiloculated abscess in right temporal lobe; left flaccid hemiparesis; left hemianopia; and drowsiness. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR3.1372, 1944
Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male airman from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 27 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: staphylococcal meningitis with cerebral abscess; headache; and suppurative otitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.
PR3.1441, 1944-1945
Typed case summary, autopsy report and chart relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 25 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: compound fracture of skull; herniation of brain; cerebral abscess ; and paralysis of left arm. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.
PR3.1511, 1944
Typed case summary, charts and report relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 42 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to the head; brain abscess; and leptomeningitis. Nonsurgical and surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR3.1529, 1944-1945
Typed case summary and charts relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 38 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: fungus cerebri; cerebral abscess; depressed fracture of skull; shrapnel wounds to head, back, and left leg; and complete right homonymous hemianopia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR3.1553, 1944
Typed case summary and chart relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 39 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound to left temporo-occipital region and elbows; wound infection; cerebral fungus; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR3.1573, 1944/1945
Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 30 at first examination in 1944. Conditions mentioned include: multiple penetrating gunshot wounds in left parietal region; resultant chronic left occipital lobe abscess; blindness; and meningitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
PR3.1623, 1945
Typed case summary, black-and-white photographs, autopsy report and chart relating to male sailor aged 22 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: extensive right parietal subdural abscess; acute pyogenic leptomeningitis spreading from sub-acute empyema of right frontal sinus; and photophobia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.