Arnold-Chiari Malformation
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A group of congenital malformations involving the brainstem, cerebellum, upper spinal cord, and surrounding bony structures. Type II is the most common, and features compression of the medulla and cerebellar tonsils into the upper cervical spinal canal and an associated MENINGOMYELOCELE. Type I features similar, but less severe malformations and is without an associated meningomyelocele. Type III has the features of type II with an additional herniation of the entire cerebellum through the bony defect involving the foramen magnum, forming an ENCEPHALOCELE. Type IV is a form a cerebellar hypoplasia. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott
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PR2.20850, 1959-1960
Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.20850
Scope and Contents
Typed case summary, correspondence, black-and-white photographs, reports, autopsy report, notes and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: communicating hydrocephalus; stiff neck; anaemia; Arnold-chiari malformation; and jaundice. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.
Dates:
1959-1960