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 51 - 90-year-old male with elevated blood pressure and change in mental status. No history of trauma
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. 385 - 393Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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Further reading
Cordonnier, C., Klijn, C. J. M., van Beijnum, J., & Al-Shahi Salman, R. (2010). Radiological investigation of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: systematic review and trinational survey. Stroke: a journal of cerebral circulation, 41(4), 685–690.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Delgado Almandoz, J. E., Schaefer, P. W., Forero, N. P., Falla, J. R., Gonzalez, R. G., & Romero, J. M. (2009). Diagnostic accuracy and yield of multidetector CT angiography in the evaluation of spontaneous intraparenchymal cerebral hemorrhage. AJNR: American journal of neuroradiology, 30(6), 1213–1221.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Fischbein, N. J., & Wijman, C. A. C. (2010). Nontraumatic intracranial hemorrhage. Neuroimaging clinics of North America, 20(4), 469–492.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Yousem, D. Y. (2011). Imaging of hemorrhage. Neuroradiology – The Requisites, ed. Youssem, D. Y., Zimmerman, R. D., Grossman, R. I.. Maryland Heights, MO: Mosby. 3rd edn. (pp. 1–11).Google Scholar