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Cachexia

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = General ill health, malnutrition, and weight loss, usually associated with chronic disease.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

PR1.515, 1932

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.515
Scope and Contents

Notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 61 at first examination in 1932. Conditions mentioned include: back pain; and cachexia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1932

PR1.1465, 1937-1938

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1465
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1937. Conditions mentioned include: headache; vomiting; failure of vision; papilloedema; osteosarcoma; carcinoma; and cachexia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1937-1938

PR1.1934, 1940

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/20/PR1.1934
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 72 at first examination in 1940. Conditions mentioned include: tumour; facial pain; and cachexia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1940

PR2.8436, 1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8436
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cachexia; intracranial pressure; and malignant growth. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950

PR2.12208, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12208
Scope and Contents

Autopsy report relating to male aged 44 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: metastases of malignant melanoma; pitosis; incontinence; cachexia; and melanomatosis. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.12739, 1953-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12739
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts, note, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: pituitary chromophobe adenoma; venous thrombosis; blindness; venous infarction; post-operative psychosis; and Simmons cachexia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1953-1954

PR2.14453, 1951-1961

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14453
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, notes, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 50 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: intractable head, neck and facial pain; hyperpathia; submandibular carcinoma; migraine; and cachexia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1961

PR2.15769, 1955

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.15769
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and autopsy report relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 72 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: Wernicke's Encephalopathy; metabolic disorder; vomiting; cachexia; and hyperplasia. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1955