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Hypopituitarism

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Diminution or cessation of secretion of one or more hormones from the anterior pituitary gland (including LH; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; SOMATOTROPIN; and CORTICOTROPIN). This may result from surgical or radiation ablation, non-secretory PITUITARY NEOPLASMS, metastatic tumors, infarction, PITUITARY APOPLEXY, infiltrative or granulomatous processes, and other conditions.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.14031, 1947-1954

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14031
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, note and correspondence relating to male from outside Great Britain aged 39 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: meningioma tuberculum sellae; paranoid psychosis; temporal hemianopia; impaired vision; and hypopituitartism. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947-1954
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3)

PR2.14538, 1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14538
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 58 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: hypopituitarism. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3)

PR2.16930, 1956-1957

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.16930
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 51 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: subarachnoid haemorrhage; hemianopia; and hypopituitarism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1956-1957
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3)

PR2.18288, 1957

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.18288
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and notes relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 20. Conditions mentioned include: hypo-pituitarism; and retinitis pigmentosa. No treatment given. Patient not examined.

Dates: 1957
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)