3rd ventricle glioma

This material is held atUniversity of Manchester Library

  • Reference
    • GB 133 VFA.7.232
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1938
  • Physical Description
    • Height: 25.3 cms Width: 31.9 cms 1 object Drawing, carbon dustRoss board Good

Scope and Content

Large ross drawing of coronal section of the brain. Annotations on the back read "MRI Jefferson patient's name glioma".

This image features as figure 24 in the publication G. Jefferson & H. Jackson, 'Tumours of the lateral and of the 3rd ventricles', Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1939, 32, pp.1105-37, in which it is described as follows: "Intraventricular tuberose sclerosis with embryonal type of glioma in 3rd ventricle".

Signed by the artist in the bottom right corner.

Related Material

UoM Library also hold the medical case notes for the subject of this drawing which can be found in the collection of Geoffrey Jefferson's patient case files, JCN/13/265.

Rough sketches created in the process of making this drawing can be found in the collection of Davison's working sketches, see DDS/3/14.