December 29, 2014
A 55-year-old man on tacrolimus, status post-liver transplant, with sudden-onset seizures and loss of consciousness
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
December 22, 2014
A 45-year-old woman, status post chemotherapy and whole brain radiation for metastatic breast cancer in 1998 and gamma knife radiosurgery to a left frontotemporal lesion in April 2003. The patient has been followed for dysarthria and right-sided simple partial seizures, which was her baseline prior to surgery.
December 18, 2014
A 45-year-old man with history of alcoholism, HIV, hepatitis C, and progressive hemiparesia
December 15, 2014
A 55-year-old man with megaloblastic anemia, progressive weakness of lower limbs, gait disturbance, and ataxia
December 11, 2014
A 25-year-old man with oculocutaneous albinism presented to the emergency department with multiple exophytic head and neck masses that had been developing for years. A CT examination showed bilateral, exophytic, highly vascular masses, along with additional smaller masses and cervical lymphadenopathy.
December 8, 2014
A 53-year-old woman with lower extremity weakness, paresthesia, and gait abnormalities
December 4, 2014
A 34-year-old woman with sudden-onset upper thoracic pain after physical effort and quickly progressive paraparesis and sensory C5 deficit
November 27, 2014
A 30-year-old man with acute myelogenous leukemia, with one-month history of lumbosacral pain radiating to the lower limbs
