Neurology: Clinical Cases Uncovered

Acknowledgements.

How to use this book.

List of abbreviations.

PART 1 Basics.

The biological basis of neurological disease and treatments.

Approach to patient.

PART 2 Cases.

Case 1 A retired accountant whose hand went weak.

Case 2 A 60-year-old man with back pain and weakness.

Case 3 A 25-year-old woman with weakness and tingling in her arms and legs.

Case 4 A 45-year-old man with uncontrollable seizures.

Case 5 A 37 year old man with sudden, severe headache.

Case 6 A 24-year-old woman with headaches and abnormal optic fundi.

Case 7 A 17-year-old girl who becomes unresponsive after a late night.

Case 8 A 30- year-old woman found fitting on the train.

Case 9 A 66 year old woman with confusion and weakness.

Case 10 An 18 year old girl with headache, fever and confusion.

Case 11 A 30-year-old woman with double vision and fatigue.

Case 12 A 29-year-old policewoman with tingling weakness of the left arm and leg.

Case 13 A 45-year-old secretary with pain in the leg.

Case 14 A 29-year old lady thrown off her horse.

Case 15 A 67-year-old man who is unsteady on his feet.

Case 16 A 49-year old plasterer with burning in the feet and difficulties walking.

Case 17 A 72 year old lady with memory problems.

Case 18 A cook with tingling hands.

Case 19 A 26-year-old lawyer with a weakness.

Case 20 A 19-year-old woman with acute headache and tingling.

Case 21 A 63 year old man whose hands have got so weak he can’t work.

Case 22 A 55-year-old lady with episodes of excruciating facial pain.

Case 23 A 38 year-old man with heaviness of the legs.

Case 24 An 84-year-old man with confusion and unsteadiness.

Case 25 A 45-year-old man with constant headache.

Case 26 A 68-year old man with a two week history of unsteadiness.

Case 27 A 15 year old student with fidgeting movements.

PART 3 Self-assessment.

MCQs.

EMQs.

SAQs.

Answers.

Index of cases by diagnosis.

Index.