May 12, 2016
A 24-year-old patient with history of a new seizure. No comorbidities or significant past medical history. Distant relative gave history of a brain tumor.
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
May 9, 2016
A 13-year-old boy with uncontrolled type 1 diabetes mellitus, progressive bilateral vision loss, and sensorineural hearing loss
May 5, 2016
A 57-year-old man with moderate alcoholism ending 20 years prior, now presenting with impairment of recent memory and executive functions, personality changes, and gait apraxia for 1 month
May 2, 2016
A 13-year-old boy, treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, with weakness of the upper left limb, speech and deglutition disorders, and right-sided hemiplegia
April 28, 2016
A 30-year-old Paraguayan man with a 3-month history of dizziness, fever, weight loss, and behavioral and sleep-wake cycle alterations but no other personal background of interest
April 25, 2016
A 25-year-old woman with sudden-onset weakness of lower limbs, urinary incontinence, and sensory disturbance from the nipple line downward, 8 hours after normal vaginal delivery
April 18, 2016
A 54-year-old woman with progressive balance instability and headaches for 2–3 weeks
April 14, 2016
An 8-year-old boy with fever, neck pain, and diarrhea that began 2 weeks ago, associated with intermittent double vision, blurred vision, and emesis in the last 2 days. Cerebellum biopsy showed only macrophages.
April 11, 2016
A 12-year-old boy presenting from an outside facility with a lesion on the gingival surface of mandible in the right retromolar region
