Case Presentations in Neurology presents a selection of case histories demonstrating how patients with often quite simple problems may present and to bring out aspects of their diagnosis and management. All the patients presented to the Department of Neurology including those with more obscure diagnoses. The book consists of 12 exercises, each of six cases broadly corresponding to the style of the MRCP (UK) written case history papers. Each case is set out with the history and physical findings given first. There follows either a series of questions or true/false statements on one side of the page which the reader should attempt before continuing on to the answer section on the other side. There then follows a short discussion about each case and a single reference. This book is intended for those doctors studying for higher professional qualifications such as the MRCP, although it may be of interest and use to medical students approaching their final examinations.

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Chapter 1. Exercise 1
Case 1.1 An Impotent Man
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Case 1.2 An Evolving Paraparesis
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Case 1.3 Sudden Blindness with Headache
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Case 1.4 Multiple Seizures
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Case 1.5 A Forgetful Man
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Case 1.6 An Infected Tooth
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Chapter 2. Exercise 2
Case 2.1 Dizzy Spells
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Case 2.2 Unexplained Coma
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Case 2.3 A Painful Arm
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Case 2.4 Confusion and Focal Seizures
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Case 2.5 Numb Legs on Exercise
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Case 2.6 A Complicated Head Injury
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Chapter 3. Exercise 3
Case 3.1 A Weak Arm after a Fight
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Case 3.2 Muscle Pain on Exercise
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Case 3.3 A Case of Involuntary Movements
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Case 3.4 Weak Legs with Incontinence
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Case 3.5 'Febrile' Convulsions
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Case 3.6 Declining Abilities in Middle Age
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Chapter 4. Exercise 4
Case 4.1 'Complicated Migraine'
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Case 4.2 Funny Turns
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Case 4.3 Backache and Pain in the Leg
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Case 4.4 Positional Dizziness
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Case 4.5 A Runny Nose
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Case 4.6 Weakness in Cold Weather
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Chapter 5. Exercise 5
Case 5.1 Headache
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Case 5.2 A Clumsy Child
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Case 5.3 Sudden Generalized Weakness
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Case 5.4 Tingling Fingers and Toes
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Case 5.5 Dizziness after Going to a Discothèque
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Case 5.6 False Localizing Signs?
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Chapter 6. Exercise 6
Case 6.1 What Am I Doing Here?
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Case 6.2 Repeated Attacks of Pain in the Eye
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Case 6.3 A Wet Bed
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Case 6.4 A Painful Hand
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Case 6.5 Blank Spells
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Case 6.6 Recent Memory Loss
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Chapter 7. Exercise 7
Case 7.1 Neurological Complications of Systemic Disease
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Case 7.2 Abnormal Behavior
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Case 7.3 Deteriorating School Work
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Case 7.4 Acute Dizziness
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Case 7.5 Painful Blindness
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Case 7.6 Sudden Falls
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Chapter 8. Exercise 8
Case 8.1 A Painful Shaking Limb
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Case 8.2 Pain in the Chest
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Case 8.3 A Slater with a Headache
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Case 8.4 Headache and a Weak Arm
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Case 8.5 A Painful Eye
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Case 8.6 Weakness and a Rash
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Chapter 9. Exercise 9
Case 9.1 Blindness after a Road Accident
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Case 9.2 An Unresponsive Patient
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Case 9.3 Slow Motor Development
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Case 9.4 A Paralyzed Arm
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Case 9.5 Acute Paraparesis
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Case 9.6 Coma of Uncertain Origin
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Chapter 10. Exercise 10
Case 10.1 A Stroke in a 17-Year-Old Girl
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Case 10.2 A Lump on the Head
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Case 10.3 Pes Cavus
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Case 10.4 Painful Ophthalmoplegia
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Case 10.5 Progressively Impaired Consciousness
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Case 10.6 Acute Confusion after an Operation
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Chapter 11. Exercise 11
Case 11.1 Deterioration after Head Injury
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Case 11.2 Sudden Visual Loss
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Case 11.3 Dizzy Spells
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Case 11.4 Unsteadiness
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Case 11.5 An Acute Confusional State
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Case 11.6 Painful Feet and Hands
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Chapter 12. Exercise 12
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Case 12.1 Sudden Collapse
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Case 12.2 Pain in the Face
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Case 12.3 An Incontinent Child
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Case 12.4 An Unsteady Lady
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Case 12.5 Difficulty in Swallowing
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Case 12.6 Intermittent Weakness of the Left Arm
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