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Macular Degeneration

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Degenerative changes in the RETINA usually of older adults which results in a loss of vision in the center of the visual field (the MACULA LUTEA) because of damage to the retina. It occurs in dry and wet forms.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.5377, 1947

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.5377
Scope and Contents

Notes and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 3 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: fits; and cerebral macular degeneration. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 1)

PR2.12239, 1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12239
Scope and Contents

correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 9 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hydrocephalus; choroidal degeneration at the macula; and spastic and ataxic legs. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953
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)