Case Presentation: A 19 yo female presented to our hospital with the complaint of lower extremity weakness and paresthesias. She had a history of episodic abdominal pain with vomiting, headaches, and paresthesias. Prior evaluations for these symptoms had led to diagnoses of fibromyalgia, migraine headaches and cyclic vomiting with erosive esophagitis. She had experienced lower [...]

Case Presentation: 19 year old male who presented to Riverside Medical Center with acute onset, progressive bilateral lower extremity weakness and paresthesias, urinary retention and saddle anesthesia. Initial CBC significant for anemia and thrombocytopenia. Peripheral smear showed 67% circulating blasts with occasional Auer rods, which was suggestive of acute myeloid leukemia. Flow cytommetry showed expression [...]

Case Presentation: Patient is a 74-year-old male with type 2 diabetes complicated by neuropathy, lumbar spinal stenosis with radiculopathy, and venous insufficiency who presented to the ED for evaluation of several months of waxing and waning bilateral lower extremity weakness with progression of symptoms causing multiple falls. Initial CT head revealed an 11 mm acute [...]