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Ependymoma

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Glioma derived from ependymocytes that tend to present as malignant intracranial tumors in children and as benign intraspinal neoplasms in adults. It may arise from any level of the ventricular system or central canal of the spinal cord.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

C.S.F. Circulation: Case of spinal ependymoma, c.1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1/61A/94/2/7
Scope and Contents

Demonstration board, Board 7, presented by Professor Dott and Staff with five photographic prints: two x-rays of the brain, one x-ray of the spine, one photograph of a brain section, and one photograph of human tissue, possibly spinal. Notes accompanying the board describe the case. Titled "C.S.F. Circulation: Subarachnoid Fluid Propulsion and Accumulations".

Dates: c.1950

PR1.376, 1931

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.376
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, nurses' report book and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: headache; glioma; medulloblastoma; and ependymoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1931

PR1.376, 1931

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.376
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, nurses' report book and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 29 at first examination in 1931. Conditions mentioned include: headache; glioma; medulloblastoma; and ependymoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1931

PR1.751, 1934

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.751
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and drawing relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1934. Conditions mentioned include: cyst; papilloma; meningioma; ependymoma; fibroma; and meningitis. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1934

PR2.702, 1941-1942

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.702
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 12 at first examination in 1941. Conditions mentioned include: vomiting; diplopia; medulloblastoma; ependymoblastoma; and glioma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1941-1942

PR1.1153, 1936

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1153
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 57 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: seizures; hemiparesis; glioblastoma; ependymoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1936

PR1.1215, 1936-1937

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1215
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1936. Conditions mentioned include: headache; hydrocephalus; glioma; cyst; and ependymoma. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1936-1937

PR1.1405, 1937-1939

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1405
Scope and Contents Typed case summary, correspondence, charts , autopsy reports and black and white photographs relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 18 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: double vision; giddiness; headache; stiff neck; vomiting; sleep disturbances; squint in eye; ependymona; loss of conscienceness; fits; glandular mass on neck; lack of energy; dysarthria; difficultly with vision; difficultly swallowing; weight loss; facial weakness; and homonymous...
Dates: 1937-1939

PR1.1576, 1938-1947

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1576
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: back injury; leg weakness; back pain; syringomyelia; and ependymoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1938-1947

PR1.1581, 1938-1939

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1581
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, notes, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 25 at first examination in 1938. Conditions mentioned include: muscle weakness; kyphosis; ependymoma; spinal tumour; and syringomyelia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1938-1939