Surgical hemispherectomy
Title
Surgical hemispherectomy
Caption
Caption from the slide : Surgical Hemispherectomy NA 123-51
Creator
Bailey, Percival, 1892-1973
Contributor
James Stone , MD , UIC Department of Neurosurgery (Curation) ; Tibor Valyi-Nagy , MD , PhD , UIC Department of Pathology (Classification) ; Zsofia Valyi-Nagy , UIC Department of Neurosurgery (Photographs)
Date of Original
1939-1960
Description
As found with the documentation : SURGICAL HEMISPHERECTOMY NA 429-51 This 7 year old colored boy was said 'been normal until 8 months of age when , after a 2-week illness of the upper respiratory ' developed convulsions and showed signs of mental retardation . He was seen at several different hospitals with no definite diagnosis being made . He developed a left hemiplegia...discharge from one of the hospitals . His condition remained static for about 5 years , two mo.. . to admission here, when he began hitting his head with his hands . He was admitted here ...treatment . On admission...nd to be markedly retarded and to have a left spastic hemiparesis . Pneumoencephalograms...ted as showing bilateral hydrocephalus , most marked on the right . A right cerebral hemispher...was done . The patient did poorly after operation . There was marked accumulation of cerebro.. . fluid in the right cranial cavity with increased intracranial pressure . In spite of drainage the fluid continued to accumulate and the intracranial pressure remained high . He died 65 days after operation , 99(?) days after admission and 8(?) years after...ptoms . At necropsy he was found to have a hydrocephalus with evidence...eased pressure in that the bone flap was displaced outward and there was flattening of the gyri(?) of the left cerebral hemisphere . He also had an acute bronchitis and bronchopneumonia as contributing factors .
Notes
Labels on piece : masking tape : 11 ; green dymo : 121
Subject--Topic
Brains Reaction Types to Injury
Type
Image
Form
Specimens
Host
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library.
Repository
University of Illinois at Chicago. Department of Neurosurgery
Source
Percival Bailey's UIC Neuropathology Collection of Plastic Embedded, Whole-mount, Preserved Brain Specimens
Collection
Percival Bailey Brain Specimens Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Rights
This image may be used freely, with attribution, for research, study and education purposes. The University of Illinois at Chicago Library and Department of Neurosurgery do not claim exclusive ownership of the copyrights to all the original documents. We are simply granting permission to use images in our collections. This permission is nonexclusive and nontransferable. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 801 S. Morgan St., Chicago, IL 60607. Phone: (312) 996-2742; email: lib-permissions@uic.edu.
Identifier
DSC_0484
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