Computed tomography scan of the brain of a patient with a meningioma

Case history

An 89 year old woman was admitted as an emergency after a fall at home. She was unable to recall the events leading up to the fall and was unable to say whether she had lost consciousness. Her home help had not witnessed the fall but accompanied her to the hospital. The help noted that the patient seemed very confused after the fall but felt that four hours later she was back to her normal self. Over the past two years the patient had had several falls and had been admitted to hospital three months earlier, also after a fall, in which she had sustained a soft tissue injury.

Her past medical history included hypothyroidism, angina, pernicious anaemia, and a basal cell carcinoma on her …