A stroke -- or something else?

The patient -- who'd had a CVA the year before -- was experiencing numbness and weakness in her right leg and foot, and had an increasingly unsteady gait. Initial lab work provided no clues.

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Published inThe Journal of family practice Vol. 60; no. 9; pp. 513 - 516
Main Authors Mount, Hillary R, Schlaudecker, Jeffrey D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.09.2011
Subjects
Anti-Inflammatory Agents - therapeutic use
Biomarkers - blood
Central Nervous System Diseases - complications
Central Nervous System Diseases - diagnosis
Central Nervous System Diseases - drug therapy
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Middle Aged
Paresis - etiology
Positron-Emission Tomography
Prognosis
Sarcoidosis - complications
Sarcoidosis - diagnosis
Sarcoidosis - drug therapy
Stroke - complications
Stroke - diagnosis
United States
United States
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Summary:The patient -- who'd had a CVA the year before -- was experiencing numbness and weakness in her right leg and foot, and had an increasingly unsteady gait. Initial lab work provided no clues.
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ISSN:1533-7294