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Quadriplegia

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Severe or complete loss of motor function in all four limbs which may result from BRAIN DISEASES; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; or rarely MUSCULAR DISEASES.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 62 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.20809, 1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.20809
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: spinal cervical dislocation; tetraparesis; scalp lacerations; and hypoaesthesia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)

PR2.20943, 1959-1962

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.20943
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: disseminated sclerosis; walking difficulty; quadriparesis; and tremor in arms. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959-1962
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 4)