A 19-year-old man with progressive headaches and visual symptoms over the last 8 days. He underwent a sleeve gastrectomy 6 weeks prior to developing the symptoms.
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
An 86-year-old woman with a history of long-term hypertension and occasional gait instability. She did not suffer from headaches. No clear gait disturbance was detected on physical examination.
A 25-year-old man with decreased hearing, occasional visual problems, and a 6-month history of headaches in the area of a progressively worsening cranial defect along the left frontolateral skull
A 49-year-old patient with new-onset bilateral lower extremity weakness with preserved continence and saddle sensation
A 26-year-old woman with progressively worsening bilateral vision loss and papilledema on fundoscopy
A 10-year-old girl with recurrent seizures since 8 months of age, global developmental delay, periorbital skin tags, and bilateral microcornea
A 12-year-old boy with seizures refractory to multiple drug regimens, without family history or stigmata of neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) or another phakomatosis
A 36-year-old woman with a 1-month history of headache suggestive of intracranial hypertension and progressive decrease in visual acuity; clinical evaluation showed bilateral papilledema without other neurologic deficits.