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Brain Damage, Chronic

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A condition characterized by long-standing brain dysfunction or damage, usually of three months duration or longer. Potential etiologies include BRAIN INFARCTION; certain NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ANOXIA, BRAIN; ENCEPHALITIS; certain NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; metabolic disorders (see BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC); and other conditions.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.8731, 1950-1952

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8731
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: twitching; drowsiness; epilepsy; amentia; brain damage; and birth injury. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950-1952

PR2.9024, 1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9024
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 39 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral damage; malignant hypertension; subarachnoid haemorrhage; unconsciousnes; incontinence; papilloedema; and facial weakness. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950

PR2.9086, 1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9086
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male patientfrom Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 1 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; unconsciousness; somnolence; compound skull fracture; and brain damage. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1950

PR2.9103, 1950-1959

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9103
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, autopsy report, photographs, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 40 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: vertebral aneurysm; subarachnoid haemorrhage; nystagmus; dysarthria; hemiparesis; suppurative encephalitis; facial weakness; epileptic fit; headache; cortical damage; pyramidal signs. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1950-1959

PR2.9205, 1950-1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9205
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and report relating to male fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; headache; impairement of memory; asynergia; cortical damage; intellectual deterioration; and valvular disease of heart. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950-1951

PR2.9281, 1950-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9281
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, note and correspondence relating to female patient fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 0 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; brain damage; mental retardation; and hypotonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950-1953

PR2.9366, 1950-1951

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9366
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 55 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: extradural haematoma; subdural heamatoma; head injury; compound skull fracture; brain stem damage; euphoria; hemiparesis; dysarthria; cerebral thrombosis; and disseminated sclerosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1950-1951

PR2.9531, 1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9531
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patientfromScotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: aural and visual agnosia; effects of carbon monoxide; and brain damage. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951

PR2.9984, 1951-1961

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9984
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 35 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: post concussional headache; brachialgia; cervical osteoarthritis; contusional brain damage; anxiety; and numbess in right limb. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1961

PR2.10281, 1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10281
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 5 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; brainstem trauma; brain damage; and skull fracture. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1951