A 59-year-old man presented for evaluation of right medically refractory otorrhea and right TM perforation at attic.
Case of the Month Archive
Section Editor: Nicholas Stence, MD
Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
A 45-year-old woman, post–motor vehicle collision as a restrained passenger requiring extrication, with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 15. Emergency medical services performed field intubation and needle thoracostomy bilaterally due to acute respiratory failure. Trauma scan revealed pneumothoraces and multiple osseous fractures. There was cardiac arrest in trauma bay with prompt recovery.
A 26-year-old man with sudden onset right vision disturbance and altered mental status.
A 67-year-old Caucasian man (a smoker with a history of hypertension) presented with headache, altered mental status, and vomiting.
A 13-year-old boy with 1 year of balance/coordination difficulties and 3 weeks of posterior headaches.
A 46-year-old woman with a 6-month history of chronic occipital headache and decreased visual acuity, who developed cutaneous purpura, paresthesias, and weakness of the inferior limbs.
A 63-year-old man with IgM kappa restricted Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia (WM) presented with acute confusion.
A 9-year-old girl referred for a routine brain MRI by the neurologist, in the setting of her primary illness.