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Growth Disorders

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. Included here are both acceleration and retardation of growth.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Files titled 'Large Offspring (MAFF)', 1992-1996

 File — Box CLX-A-1491: Series Coll-1320/2, Box: data_value_missing_cdd6039493e25e98f7684031afaf295b, Box: data_value_missing_7469fdaedfb98ec95ad829932cefe526
Identifier: Coll-1320/2/1/3
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to the projects 'Regulation of fetal size at birth' and 'Identification of factors and mechanisms in embryo culture associated with the large offspring syndrome'. Contains correspondence with MAFF, SOAFD and other project partners; copies of costings and grant application forms; Ian Wilmut's handwritten notes from discussions and meetings; reports and data from experiments and some reprints.

Dates: 1992-1996
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Ian Wilmut / Research / Papers relating to scientific projects

Files titled 'Large Offspring (SOAFD)', 1992-1997

 File — Box CLX-A-1492: Series Coll-1320/2, Box: data_value_missing_175af722f1bd1d8b545ff80b6cbb9bef, Box: data_value_missing_2e7713b71c1ba73f85c77cfa17e00396
Identifier: Coll-1320/2/1/4
Scope and Contents Papers relating to research on large offpsring, particularly in sheep, on the projects 'Preovulatory influences on embryo development and foetal growth' and 'In vitro culture of sheep zygotes and its effect on foetal size and development'. Contains correspondence with MAFF, SOAFD and other project partners; copies of costings and grant application forms; Ian Wilmut's handwritten notes from discussions and meetings; reports and data from experiments, some reprints and some briefing notes...
Dates: 1992-1997
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Ian Wilmut / Research / Papers relating to scientific projects

PR2.7810, 1949-1950

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.7810
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes and chart relating to female from outside Great Britain aged 60 at first examination in 1949. Conditions mentioned include: agromegaly; facial pain; tiredness; deepening of voice; and increased feet size. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1949-1950
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)

PR2.14471, 1954-1964

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14471
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, reports and charts relating to male from outside Great Britain aged 21 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: pituitary chromophobe adenoma; headaches; fatiguability; vision defect; homonymous hemianopia; neck pain; growth spurt; Costen's syndrome; hormone deficiency; head injury; and concussion. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1954-1964
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)

PR2.19876, 1958-1960

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.19876
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, report and notes relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 3 at first examination in 1958. Conditions mentioned include: minor epilepsy; minor head injury; vomiting; and retarded growth. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1958-1960
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)