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Baylor neurology case of the month: www.bcm.tmc.edu/neurol/case.html

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK; ww@skull.dcn.ed.ac.uk

Keywords: neuronline; online case based neurology

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Internet educational tools are often full of fancy graphics displays but short on thought. The Baylor College of Medicine’s neurology department’s case of the month site is the antithesis of this approach. Each month a case that residents have found interesting is posted on this simple, well thought out site.

First a detailed history and examination is presented for each case, from which it is sometimes possible to make a clinical diagnosis. It is usually necessary, however, to proceed to the test result page. Here, a plan of investigation can be drawn up, by choosing 14 tests from a list of about 80 possible laboratory, radiological, and neurophysiological studies. Radiological and pathological images can be reviewed and, at the cost of one investigation, an interpretation provided.

Hopefully, with a careful analysis of the history and examination findings, and interpretation of the test results, you can reach a diagnosis. Your diagnosis . . . [Full text of this article]

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