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Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Accumulation of blood in the EPIDURAL SPACE between the SKULL and the DURA MATER, often as a result of bleeding from the MENINGEAL ARTERIES associated with a temporal or parietal bone fracture. Epidural hematoma tends to expand rapidly, compressing the dura and underlying brain. Clinical features may include HEADACHE; VOMITING; HEMIPARESIS; and impaired mental function,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 73 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.21129, 1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.21129
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 9 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; extradural haematoma; and bone defect. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1959
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)

PR2.21293, 1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.21293
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report, correspondence, notes and charts relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 48 at first examination in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; epidural and subdural haematomata; unconsciousness; and hemiplegia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1959
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)

PR2.21357, 1959

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.21357
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report and charts relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians first examined in 1959. Conditions mentioned include: dynamic head injury; lacerations; brain contusions; and extradural haematoma. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1959
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)