Clinical Reasoning: A 32-year-old woman with right-sided numbness and word-finding difficulties
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Clinical reasoning: a 32-year-old woman with right-sided numbness and word-finding difficulties.
SECTION 1 A 32-year-old right-handed woman from El Salvador was brought into the emergency department (ED) because of confusion, right-sided numbness, and word-finding difficulties. Her symptoms started that morning, while working at a laundromat, with sudden onset of right-sided tingling followed by transient right arm weakness and word-finding difficulties. She felt confused and had trouble r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000000736