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Case 13: A Man With Progressive Headache and Confusion
What "red flags" point to the need to search for serious underlying mechanisms of headache? What is the differential for pachymeningeal enhancement? Test yourself and learn with this interactive case.
Medscape General Medicine™, July 2006
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Case 12: My Doctor Says That I Have ALS!
The patient had a "funny feeling" in his right leg and an EMG suspicious for ALS, but his history and symptoms didn't quite add up. Can you make the correct diagnosis?
Medscape General Medicine™, March 2006
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Case 11: A Young Woman With Ring-Enhancing Brain Lesions
Learn about the case of a 35-year-old woman who presented with blurred vision associated with headache and left-side numbness.
Medscape General Medicine™, January 2006
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Case 10: It's "The Vision Thing"
Learn about the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of this patient who was admitted to the hospital with a complaint of "I can't see."
Medscape General Medicine™, July 2005
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Case 9: Pregnant? Who's Pregnant?: Memory Loss in a Young Woman
The patient is a 19-year-old pregnant woman with a history of cystic fibrosis, Graves' disease, acquired hearing loss, and CF-related diabetes, who presents to the hospital after being "found down."
Medscape General Medicine™, May 2005
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Case 8: Absentminded and "Walking Like a Drunk"
Test your diagnostic skills in this Johns Hopkins Clinical Case: A 58-year-old man with no significant past medical history experienced rapidly progressive neurologic symptoms.
Medscape General Medicine™, February 2005
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Case 7: Chief Complaint: Paraplegia and Encephalopathy
Test your diagnostic skills with this challenging interactive case study from Johns Hopkins.
Medscape General Medicine™, December 2004
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Case 6: When Is a Headache Not Just a Headache?
A 41-year-old healthy woman underwent a gingival scraping procedure. Following the procedure, she developed fever and malaise, and the "worst headache of her life."
Medscape General Medicine™, July 2004
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Case 5: Altered Mental Status and Fever After Resection of Glioblastoma Multiforme
A 54-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension presented to the emergency room after a single, generalized tonic-clonic seizure.
Medscape General Medicine™, April 2004
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Case 4: Just a Bruise?
A 20-month-old girl presents to the emergency department after falling from her couch, hitting her head on a coffee table, and then becoming sleepy.
Medscape General Medicine™, November 2003
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Case 3: 44-Year-Old Man With Fever, Headache, Confusion, and Ataxia
A man from India with a 2-month history of low-grade
fever, headache, and neck pain presents with gradual
worsening of symptoms. His medical history is
remarkable for uveitis for 2 years prior.
Medscape General Medicine™, August 2003
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Case 2: Acute Ascending Paralysis in a 4-Year-Old Boy
A "limp" rapidly progresses to generalized weakness
and areflexia, along with other symptoms.
Medscape General Medicine™, April 2003
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Case 1: A Woman With Headache and Dizziness
This patient worsened despite treatment. What's your
diagnosis?
Medscape General Medicine™, February 2003
