Spinal Cord Diseases

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 0 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: dorsal meningocele; B coli meningitis; subdural effusions; communicating hydrocephalus; porencephalitic cysts; epilepsy; and seizures. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts, notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: backache; acute vascular lesion; minor back injury; spinal cord lesion; paraparetic; and disseminated sclerosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, report, chart and correspondence relating to female from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 47 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: deformity of dorsal spine; lumbar backache; childhood rickets; and neck pain. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, reports and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 73 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: spastcity of arms; ataxia; achlorhydria; sensory peripheral neuritis; and subacute combined degeneration spinal cord. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, note, charts, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 72 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: muscular spasms in lower limbs; Parkinsonian tremor; extra pyramidal syndrome; spinal cord disease; syringomyelia; kyphoscoliosis; and osteoporosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Autopsy report, neuropathology report and post-mortem report relating to male patient aged 60 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: urine retention; constipation; confustion; cervical spondylosis causing myelopathy; vascular cord lesions; Hodgkin's sarcoma; pulmonary embolism; and chronic prostatitis. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 55 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: degenerative condition of spinal cord; motor neurone disease; spasticity; amyotrophy; and fasciculations in arms. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, photographic slides, reports, notes and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 24 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: spastic quadriplegia; syringomyelia; flexor spasm; and intramedullary cyst. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cervical prolapsed intervertebral disc; damaged ulnar nerve; cervical pain; traumatic cervical myelopathy; paraesthesiae; and cervical spondylosis. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts and reports relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: cauda equina syndrome; back pain; sciatica; weakness; fribrositis; arthritis; and fistula. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.