Book contents
- Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case BookCase-Oriented Fast Focused Effective Education
- Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Part I Non-Traumatic Conditions
- Section 1 Abdomen
- Section 2 Thorax
- Section 3 Otolaryngology
- Section 4 Neurology
- Case 44 77-year-old male with a history of hypertension and atrial fibrillation presented at an outside hospital with sudden onset of left facial droop, left arm and leg weakness
- Case 45 54-year-old woman who fell while at work
- Case 46 74-year-old woman presents with rapidly deteriorating mental status over 3 months
- Case 47 62-year-old man presented with orthostatic headache
- Case 48 79-year-old woman with progressive deterioration in mental status over the course of 1 week
- Case 49 72-year-old female with a 2-day history of progressively worsening headache, nausea, and vomiting
- Case 50 55-year-old female with sudden onset of the “worst headache of her life”
- Case 51 90-year-old male with elevated blood pressure and change in mental status. No history of trauma
- Case 52 40-year-old man with a history of illicit drug use was found seizing and unconscious
- Section 5 Musculoskeletal
- Part II Traumatic Conditions
- Index
- References
Case 48 - 79-year-old woman with progressive deterioration in mental status over the course of 1 week
from Section 4 - Neurology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2016
Book contents
- Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case BookCase-Oriented Fast Focused Effective Education
- Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Part I Non-Traumatic Conditions
- Section 1 Abdomen
- Section 2 Thorax
- Section 3 Otolaryngology
- Section 4 Neurology
- Case 44 77-year-old male with a history of hypertension and atrial fibrillation presented at an outside hospital with sudden onset of left facial droop, left arm and leg weakness
- Case 45 54-year-old woman who fell while at work
- Case 46 74-year-old woman presents with rapidly deteriorating mental status over 3 months
- Case 47 62-year-old man presented with orthostatic headache
- Case 48 79-year-old woman with progressive deterioration in mental status over the course of 1 week
- Case 49 72-year-old female with a 2-day history of progressively worsening headache, nausea, and vomiting
- Case 50 55-year-old female with sudden onset of the “worst headache of her life”
- Case 51 90-year-old male with elevated blood pressure and change in mental status. No history of trauma
- Case 52 40-year-old man with a history of illicit drug use was found seizing and unconscious
- Section 5 Musculoskeletal
- Part II Traumatic Conditions
- Index
- References
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- Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case BookCase-Oriented Fast Focused Effective Education, pp. 354 - 362Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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Kennedy, PGE. Viral encephalitis: causes, differential diagnosis, and management. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2004; 75:i10–15.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed