An Intracranial Hemorrhage Wrapped in an Enigma
An 88-year-old man with Alzheimer's dementia who previously received a diagnosis of solitary Fuhrman grade 2 renal cell carcinoma1 managed with active surveillance presented to the emergency department for progressive left-sided headache and difficulty recognizing numbers and letters. He and his family denied history of trauma, fall, or anticoagulant use. This occurred 1 week after presenting to the same emergency department with a headache and being discharged home after negative head computed tomography, 2 months after spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage involving the right central sulcus, and 11 months after transient ischemic attack symptoms with negative wo rkup.
Source: International Journal of Radiation Oncology * Biology * Physics - Category: Radiology Authors: Shearwood McClelland, Naoyuki G. Saito Tags: Gray Zone Source Type: research
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