March 25, 2021
An 8-month-old infant with head trauma 2 months ago and recent left parietal progressive scalp swelling
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
March 18, 2021
A 52-year-old woman with occipital headaches and left upper extremity pain; she reports a prior surgery at age 14 for a posterior neck mass.
March 11, 2021
A 4-year-old boy with left arm posturing and delayed motor and speech milestones
March 4, 2021
A 26-year-old woman with complaints of abnormal involuntary jerky movements of the head and upper and lower limbs for 3 years and difficulty in walking for 3 years; the current brain MRI was compared with prior MRI dated June 2017
February 25, 2021
A 45-year-old man with a severe traumatic brain injury and a temporal contusion, with subsequent decompressive craniectomy; asymptomatic; control CT for a new cranioplasty
February 18, 2021
A 27-year-old woman with promyelocytic leukemia presenting with headache and diplopia after all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) therapy (top row). Follow-up 20 days later after discontinuation of ATRA, lumbar puncture, and acetazolamide therapy, with complete remission of symptoms (bottom row).
February 11, 2021
A previously healthy 16-year-old boy with 3 months of headaches and vomiting without fever. On admission, serum inflammatory markers were negative; there was mild leukocytosis and normal CSF indices except for low glucose.
January 28, 2021
A 6-year-old girl with absent hearing threshold in the left ear and preserved facial nerve function
January 21, 2021
A 27-year-old woman with gradual-onset proptosis of the right eye and decreased vision for the last 4 months
