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Giant Cell Tumor of Bone

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A bone tumor composed of cellular spindle-cell stroma containing scattered multinucleated giant cells resembling osteoclasts. The tumors range from benign to frankly malignant lesions. The tumor occurs most frequently in an end of a long tubular bone in young adults.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.7305, 1948-1949

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7305
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, report, notes, chart, photographs and correpsondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 25 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; unconsciousness; and osteoclastoma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1948-1949
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)

PR2.17734, 1955-1964

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.17734
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 15 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: spinal injury; osteoclastoma; and unsteadiness on feet. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955-1964
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)