Department of Emergency Medicine

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Title: What's the Diagnosis? Image by Dr. Yitschok Applebaum, Dr. Jonathan Hoover, and Dr. Semhar Tewelde

Category: Visual Diagnosis

Posted: 11/23/2014 by Haney Mallemat, MD (Updated: 11/25/2014)
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Question

Patient with syncope and then falls down the stairs. What's the diagnosis? (hint: be very,very careful)

Answer

Right subdural hematoma and left subarachnoid hemorrhage

 

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