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Dystonia

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = An attitude or posture due to the co-contraction of agonists and antagonist muscles in one region of the body. It most often affects the large axial muscles of the trunk and limb girdles.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.1592, 1943-1963

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1592
Scope and Contents

Report, charts, notes and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 34 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: hypertonus; cramp; and dystonia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1963

PR2.5267, 1946-1947

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.5267
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 12 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: athetosis; and torsionic dystonia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946-1947

PR2.6516, 1948

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.6516
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart, reports, notes, drawings, autopsy report, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 20 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: unsteadiness; headache; vomiting; hydrocephalus; and cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1948

PR2.12676, 1953-1965

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12676
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 22 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: tuberculoma; headache; facial asymmetry; pulomary tuberculosis; spastic hemiparesis; epilepsy; progressive dystonia; and flexor contracture of left elbow. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1965

PR2.18958, 1958

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.18958
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: congenital syphilis; chronic urinary tract infection; cyanosis; and dystonic movements in left side. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1958

PR2.19211, 1958-1961

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.19211
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, typed case summary and notes relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 13 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral palsy; dystonic movements; intellectual disability; and nystagmus. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1958-1961

PR2.19362, 1958

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.19362
Scope and Contents

Charts, notes, correspondence and reports relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 64 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: dystonia; and bilateral intention tremor. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1958

PR2.20820, 1959-1970

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.20820
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 60 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: post-encephalitic parkinsonism; tremor in right limbs; rigidity in right limbs; and oculogyric crises. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959-1970

PR2.21197, 1959-1961

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.21197
Scope and Contents

Reports, notes, typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 61 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: dystonia (left); weakness in left leg; cervical spondylosis; and walking difficulty. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959-1961