Abstract: Clinical case reports are a genre developed within the communities of healthcare professionals and based on the clinical experience of one or a few patients. Unlike other authors, we consider that they have a mainly narrative nature and, therefore, can be characterized by a structure following the five canonical sections of the narrative: initial situation, node, (re) action or evaluation, denouement and final situation. We verify the presence of these components in a prototypical clinical case report from the field of neurology, comparing them with analogous samples of another genre that is widely recognised as narrative: clinical tales.