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Evaluating the child with unsteady gait.
Unsteady gait is a relatively common presentation to the pediatric emergency and neurology services. Unsteadiness can be due to a wide variety of causes, however, the primary concern on initial assessment is to exclude serious disorders such as meningitis, encephalitis, or brain tumors. Recognizing benign and non-neurological causes of unsteady gait is essential to avoid unnecessary investigati...
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RATIONALE Neurosarcoidosis (NS) is an uncommon manifestation of systemic sarcoidosis, with a propensity for middle-agedwomen. Often discovered only at autopsy, rates of neurologic involvement (5%-10%) reported in the literature underscore a lack of sensitivity and specificity in current diagnostic methods. PATIENT CONCERNS Herein, we describe a 53-year-old woman who presented with gait imbala...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2005.040774