Neurology
- Common neurologic emergencies for nonneurologists: When minutes count
Recognizing and treating acute stroke, status epilepticus, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and others.
- Bulldog scalp
A 54-year-old man presented with a 2-year history of unusual skin folds on the scalp—cutis verticis gyrata.
- The simple lab test is sometimes more complex than we think, if we think about it at all
Before ordering more tests because of an abnormal laboratory result (eg, elevated creatine kinase), think about its biology.
- Not all abdominal pain is gastrointestinal
A 31-year-old woman presents with right mid-abdominal pain that began 1 day ago.
- Autoantibody-mediated encephalitis: Not just paraneoplastic, not just limbic, and not untreatable
Suspect these syndromes in cases of unexplained seizure, encephalitis, or acute-onset psychiatric syndromes.