Brain Injury

The wife of a 75-year-old previously healthy man calls her internist to report her husband’s acute episode of “confusion.”

A 50-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) after slipping on a wet stone surface while fishing at a beer festival. He presents with altered mental status and a vague symptom of headache. ...

At 29 weeks of gestation, an enlarged cisterna magna of 1.1 cm had been discovered on fetal ultrasonography. Repeated measurement at 36 weeks had shown a dilation of 1.2 cm.

Anisocoria can be a critically important clinical finding in patients given that it has been associated with severe, life-threatening neurologic conditions.