A 75-year-old man with treatable progressive quadriparesis: question
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Progressive hemiparesis in a 75-year-old man.
To cite: Fernandes PM, Turner MR, Zeidler M, et al. Pract Neurol 2015;15:63–71. HISTORY A 75-year-old, right-handed, married, retired dockyard electrical engineer presented in 2005 with a 35-year history of progressive right leg weakness, such that he was finding walking difficult. Over the 10 years before presentation, he had also developed right hand weakness, with loss of feeling in the righ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0967-5868
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2015.11.023