Clinical Reasoning: a 52-year-old man with spells of altered consciousness and severe headaches

Neurology. 2009 May 26;72(21):e105-10. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181a711b4.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal / therapeutic use
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / complications
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Brain Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid / metabolism
  • Consciousness Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Consciousness Disorders / etiology
  • Dexamethasone / therapeutic use
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Glioblastoma / complications
  • Glioblastoma / diagnosis*
  • Glioblastoma / drug therapy
  • Headache Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Headache Disorders / etiology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Middle Aged
  • Spinal Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Spinal Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Spinal Neoplasms / metabolism

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
  • Dexamethasone