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Spinal Cord Injuries

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

PR3.1648, 1945-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1648
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 33 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: mortar bomb injury to left side of neck resulting in concussion of upper spinal cord; direct injury of left cervical sympathetic; and secondary embolism of left carotid artery. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945-1946

PR3.1697, 1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1697
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male sailor from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 52 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: traumatic radicular lesion (concussion) due to repeated trauma to the lumbar spine; and muscle atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945

PR3.1708, 1945-1961

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1708
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and charts relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: penetrating wound of spine; and hemiplegia. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945-1961

PR3.1761, 1945-1947

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1761
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 29 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: gunshot wound resulting in paraplegia; injury of cauda equina; chronic epidural abscess; and poor bladder control. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945-1947

PR3.1800, 1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1800
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and notes relating to male pensioner from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: contusion of cervical spine; and hypochondriacal tendencies. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945

PR3.1912, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1912
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, charts and notes relating to male soldier from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 26 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: traumatic lesion of spinal cord (probably small haematomyelia); superimposed hysterical sensory defects; and paraesthesiae. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR3.1915, 1945-1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.1915
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and charts relating to male soldier from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 31 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: bullet wound to spinal column; paraesthesiae; and pain in buttocks and thigh. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945-1946

PR3.2036, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.2036
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, report and black-and-white photographs relating to male dock worker from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: old spinal cord injury; dense adhesion formation; and paralysis of both legs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR3.2092, 1947

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.2092
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male lorry driver from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 43 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: injury of upper cervical cord; pulmonary tuberculosis; and back pain. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947

PR3.2130, 1947

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.2130
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, correspondence and chart relating to male prisoner of war from outside Great Britain aged 36 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: fracture dislocation of cervical spine; contusion of spinal cord; haematomyelia; and paraplegia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1947