Present illness: A 39-year-old woman, complains of headache, weakness, and pain in her neck that had lasted for the previous eight weeks. She had no focal weakness, numbness, or seizure activity. Her headaches were generalized mostly in the occipital and parietal lobes, and had a pulsatile character. There was no relief following positional changes or administration of paregoric. After a few days, she began to complain of nausea and dizziness, along with her other symptoms.
After a while, she began to experience weakness in her left hand, which gradually spread to the whole left side of her body. It was revealed that she kept a cat in her house. She had been visited once by a neurologist who made the diagnosis of nervous headache. Her condition did not improve, so she went to another specialist who ordered a magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI), which reported a mass. Neurological…
