A 35-year-old man with a 5-year history of progressively worsening right visual acuity, blurry vision, and chronic right ear discharge
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 48-year-old man with malignant hypertension (240/120 mmHg), severe headache, nausea, vomiting, blurry vision, and acute renal failure; no motor or sensory deficits
A 37-year-old male bomb blast victim with right hemiplegia and drowsiness
A 54-year-old woman with 8 months of neck pain, right arm pain, intermittent bowel incontinence, and recent onset of difficulty swallowing
A 70-year-old man experiencing difficulty with articulating language and spoken object naming in the last month
A 21-year-old woman with sudden onset of coma before regaining consciousness about 30 minutes later, leaving a horizontal gaze palsy and bilateral pathologic extensor plantar response