Basal Ganglia Diseases

Chart and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 50 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: shoulder pain; tremor; arterial hypertension; cerebral lesion in basal ganglia; thalamic lesion; arm pain; and early arteriosclerotic changes. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 62 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cortical atrophy; extra-pyramidal paresis; Jakob-Kreutzfeld type of system degeneration; leg spasm; and paresthesiae. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 44 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: neck pain; limb spasticity; extra-pyramidal disorder; and akinetic form of Parkinsonism. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 60 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: spastic pyramidal defect in arms; upper motor neurone impairement of leg; and thrombosis in cerebral artery. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Note and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 60 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: incoordination of right arm; and extra-pyramidal disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, report and chart relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: subcortical degeneration of central nervous system; incoordination of lower limbs; slurred speech; and Olivo-ponto-cerebellar atrophy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 11 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: extra pyramidal symptoms; facial weakness; homonymous hemianopia; cerebral tumour; ependymoma of temporal lobe; and choreoathetoid disturbance of upper limb. 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 39 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: malignant astrocytoma; papilloedema; headaches; and pyramidal signs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Note and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 4 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: spasticity in lower limbs; cerebral birth injury; mixed pyramidal and extra-pyramidal syndrome; and venous haemorrhage. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, report and correspondence relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 64 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: subdural haematoma; head injury; cerebral arteriosclerosis; confusion; and pyramidal sign. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.