A 66-year-old woman with no past medical history presents with 5 months of right hearing loss, tinnitus, and headache.
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
A 35-year-old woman presents with a 6-year history of slowly progressive walking problems and lower extremity paresthesia. The neurologic examination reveals paraparesis with brisk deep tendon reflexes and Babinski sign present bilaterally. Lower limb hypoesthesia and wide-based gait are noted.
A 37-year-old man is referred for consult on 6-month evolution of dysphagia.
A 3-year-old boy with a history of celiac disease with protein-losing enteropathy presents with convulsions.
A 2-year-old presents with complaints of neck pain and movement restriction for 9 months, and instability while walking for 1 month.
A 3-year-old boy presents with fever, seizures, and other clinical features suggestive of encephalopathy.
A 17-year-old adolescent boy comes to the emergency department after a motorcycle crash, with intense pain in the right arm and shoulder, decreased sensitivity, and incapacity to move wrist and fingers.
A 12-year-old boy presents with gradual right-sided visual loss for 3 months, headache for 1 month, and left-sided vision loss for 3 weeks.
A 54-year-old man presents with history of episodic loss of consciousness for the last 6 months. There are no focal neurologic deficits and bilateral mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss.