Case Presentation: A 51-year-old female with a history of lumbar stenosis (status post-transforaminal epidural steroid injection), hypertension, and migraines presented with altered mental status and severe acute headache. The day before, she experienced unusual lower back pain and, after consuming shrimp scampi, developed abdominal pain, nausea, flaccidity in her upper extremities, dysarthria, and a severe [...]

Case Presentation: A 73-year-old male with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and mild COPD presented with word-finding difficulties. Initial brain imaging at an outside hospital suggested a left intra-axial peri-Rolandic lesion, raising suspicion for a primary brain tumor like glioma. He was transferred for neurosurgical evaluation, where MRI revealed a ring-enhancing lesion with restricted diffusion, consistent with a [...]