Case of the Week Archive
Section Editors: Matylda Machnowska1 and Anvita Pauranik2
1University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
A 48-year-old woman presents with refractory headaches and nausea that began a day prior to admission.
A 38-year-old male patient presents with a 6-month history of low back pain and bladder dysfunction.
A 34-year-old male patient presents with symptoms of neck pain, seizures, and dizziness when lying down for the past 2 months.
A 6-year-old child presents with seizures. On examination, there is a linear band of soft tissue atrophy in right frontoparietal region.
A 6-month-old male infant with unremarkable past medical history presents with a large and disfiguring left peri-orbital tumefaction, growing rapidly for the previous 4 months.
A 12-year-old girl presents with headache, mild bilateral hearing loss, and mild painless loss of vision in her left eye. There is no history of trauma or any history suggestive of raised intracranial tension.
A 23-year-old man presents with weakness and tingling in the left upper limb for 18 months. On examination, there is atrophy of the thenar muscles of the left hand.
An 11-year-old girl from northern Australia presents with fevers, headache, and confusion, progressing to status epilepticus and coma.