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Brain Infarction

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Tissue NECROSIS in any area of the brain, including the CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES, the CEREBELLUM, and the BRAIN STEM. Brain infarction is the result of a cascade of events initiated by inadequate blood flow through the brain that is followed by HYPOXIA and HYPOGLYCEMIA in brain tissue. Damage may be temporary, permanent, selective or pan-necrosis.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.7137, 1939-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7137
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, chart and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 55 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: demyelinating disease; personality change; failure of vision; deafness; infarcts; and basal ganglia disorder. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1939-1953

PR2.8457, 1950

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.8457
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, reports, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 37 at first examination in 1950. Conditions mentioned include: acoustic neuroma; cerebellar infarction; dizziness; headache; deafness; and ataxia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1950

PR3.2035, 1946

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Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.2035
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports, black-and-white photographs and charts relating to male dock worker from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 54 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: essential arterial hypertension; infarction of base of brain; cerebral arteriosclerosis; and cardiac enlargement. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1946

PR2.11568, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11568
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence and chart relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 62 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: vertigo; diplopia; tinnitus; nystagmus; and infarct of the brain stem. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11787, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11787
Scope and Contents

Note, reports and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral vascular accident; attacks of giddiness; and basal infarct. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11861, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11861
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 49 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: chronic cerebellar supprative process; otitis media; midbrain infarction; mid-cerebellar abscesss; cerebellar thrombo-phlebitis; and dysarthria. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1952

PR2.11862, 1952

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11862
Scope and Contents

Charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral thrombosis; comatose; arterial disease; cerebral infarction; and parathyroid adenoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1952

PR2.12739, 1953-1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12739
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, charts, note, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 38 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: pituitary chromophobe adenoma; venous thrombosis; blindness; venous infarction; post-operative psychosis; and Simmons cachexia. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1953-1954

PR2.13916, 1954

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.13916
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, photograph, notes, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 16 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: severe head injury; and ischaemic infarction. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1954

PR2.19767, 1958

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Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.19767
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, autopsy report, charts and notes relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 53 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: cerebellar infarction; dizziness; paraesthesiae in face, arm and leg; and slurring of speech. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1958