Erik Magnus Berntsen

28.10.2019: This image shows paradoxical brain herniation in a patient with known renal failure, hypertension and coronary artery disease who had undergone a hemicraniectomy a few months earlier. Paradoxical brain herniation is a rare, and potentially life-threatening, complication following removal of a large...

12.06.2018: A man in his early seventies attended the accident and emergency department with chills and reduced general condition. His temperature was 40.6 °C, and blood tests showed a CRP level of 115 mg/l (< 5) and leukocytes 12.9 . 10 8 (4.1–9.8 . 10 8). Two days before, he had undergone electrical...

18.09.2017: Established 80 years ago, the editorial committee of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association has been reorganised for a new era. The editorial committee was established in 1938 (1). In the preceding years, the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association had been edited by the editor-in...

02.02.2017: This issue of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association features two cases of carotid artery dissection, detected by MRI and ultrasound respectively. Which method should be used when? An arterial dissection occurs when a tear in the intima of the vessel wall allows blood to flow into a false...

11.02.2014: A butterfly glioma is a glioma that involves both cerebral hemispheres by growing through the corpus callosum, the white matter tract that crosses the midline of the cerebrum. The result when the tumour grows symmetrically in the two hemispheres is the characteristic image reminiscent of a butterfly...