Clinical Cases in Neurology From Johns Hopkins

Case 17: Sudden Paralysis in a Boy With Headaches An adolescent boy with chronic headaches presents with episodes of "legs giving out." Are the 2 symptoms linked?
Clinical Case, July 18, 2007
Case 16: Chasing the Dragon After a 2- to 3-day drinking binge, this young man suffered a relentless deterioration in his mental status. What caused his fulminant coma?
Clinical Case, April 18, 2007
Case 15: When a Stroke Is Not a Stroke A patient with AIDS presents with strokelike symptoms. Can you find the underlying cause?
Clinical Case, January 30, 2007
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.
Clinical Case, July 26, 2006
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?
Clinical Case, March 22, 2006
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.
Clinical Case, January 05, 2006
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."
Clinical Case, July 26, 2005
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."
Clinical Case, May 26, 2005
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.
Clinical Case, February 03, 2005
Case 7: Chief Complaint: Paraplegia and Encephalopathy Test your diagnostic skills with this challenging interactive case study from Johns Hopkins.
Journal Article, December 15, 2004
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."
Clinical Case, July 01, 2004
Altered Mental Status, Fever After Resection of Glioblastoma A 54-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension presented to the emergency room after a single, generalized tonic-clonic seizure.
Clinical Case, April 08, 2004
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.
Clinical Case, November 24, 2003
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.
Journal Article, August 28, 2003
Case 2: Acute Ascending Paralysis in a 4-Year-Old Boy A "limp" rapidly progresses to generalized weakness
Journal Article, April 10, 2003
Case 1: A Woman With Headache and Dizziness This patient worsened despite treatment. What's your diagnosis?
Clinical Case, February 14, 2003

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