A 1-year-9-month-old boy with an 8-month history of painless, progressively enlarging left preauricular mass
Case of the Week Archive
Section Editors: Sapna Rawal,1 Matylda Machnowska,1 Anvita Pauranik2
1University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
A 62-year-old man without relevant past medical history. A couple of hours after suffering minor accidental head trauma, relatives started noticing subjective speech difficulties described as slowness, stuttering, and trouble finding words. Patient was brought to the ED 2 days later, without objective deficits on neurologic examination. Formal neuropsychological evaluation documented a mild defect in spontaneous verbal recall.
A 39-year-old woman with sudden onset of dysarthria and left hemiparesis; no history of underlying systemic disease; symptoms resolved spontaneously in less than 24 hours
A 51-year-old man with ataxia, vomiting, and dizziness; recent history of perforated diverticulitis
A 13-year-old adolescent boy with a history of bilateral lower extremity weakness
A 22-year-old man with a history of trauma presents with right eye laceration
A 21-month-old girl with an undisclosed medical history and complaints of altered mental status and lethargy, as per the parents
A 24-year-old man with known vascular anomaly and left facial and arm spasms for the past 2 weeks, worsening over the past 4 days