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Bhattacharrya S, Miller J, Ropper AH. The case for case reports. Ann Neurol. 2014;76(4):484-6doi: 10.1002/ana.24267.
Bhattacharrya, S., Miller, J., & Ropper, A. H. (2014). The case for case reports. Annals of neurology, 76(4), 484-6. https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.24267
Bhattacharrya, Shamik, et al. "The case for case reports." Annals of neurology vol. 76,4 (2014): 484-6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.24267
Bhattacharrya S, Miller J, Ropper AH. The case for case reports. Ann Neurol. 2014 Oct;76(4):484-6. doi: 10.1002/ana.24267. Epub 2014 Sep 19. PMID: 25178674.
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Ann Neurol. 2014 Oct;76(4):484-6. doi: 10.1002/ana.24267. Epub 2014 Sep 19.

The case for case reports.

Annals of neurology

Shamik Bhattacharrya, Julie Miller, Allan H Ropper

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  1. Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

PMID: 25178674 DOI: 10.1002/ana.24267

Abstract

Case reports have seemingly fallen upon hard times. Once esteemed by William Osler and C. Miller Fisher, these reports are now considered anachronistic. Nonetheless, case reports remain valuable and formed the largest proportion of publications written last year by residents in our training program (the Partners Neurology Residency). Although they are easy to produce, it is reasonable to ask if these modern exercises are of equal significance to the narratives of migraine by John Graham in the 1950s or descriptions of Parkinson disease by James Parkinson in 1817. Even a brief reading of currently published case reports raises doubts about the value of many of them but also emphasizes their utility. We argue here that the case report format remains of considerable merit, especially to the aspiring academic clinician.

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