Language Impairment and Right Hemiparesis in a 54-Year-Old Woman

A 54-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with 3 months of slurred speech, language problems, and right hemiparesis. Initial impression based on history, exam, and imaging was brain abscess vs. primary or metastatic neoplasm. Brain biopsy of the lesion and pathologic specimens were obtaine...

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Autores principales: Venizelos, Alexander, Lee, John, Biller, José
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Research Foundation 2011
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3129533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21747776
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2011.00040
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description A 54-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with 3 months of slurred speech, language problems, and right hemiparesis. Initial impression based on history, exam, and imaging was brain abscess vs. primary or metastatic neoplasm. Brain biopsy of the lesion and pathologic specimens were obtained. Below is a description of her presentation, hospital course, imaging, and pathology, as well as a short discussion of the final diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-31295332011-07-11 Language Impairment and Right Hemiparesis in a 54-Year-Old Woman Venizelos, Alexander Lee, John Biller, José Front Neurol Neurology A 54-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with 3 months of slurred speech, language problems, and right hemiparesis. Initial impression based on history, exam, and imaging was brain abscess vs. primary or metastatic neoplasm. Brain biopsy of the lesion and pathologic specimens were obtained. Below is a description of her presentation, hospital course, imaging, and pathology, as well as a short discussion of the final diagnosis. Frontiers Research Foundation 2011-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3129533/ /pubmed/21747776 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2011.00040 Text en Copyright © 2011 Venizelos, Lee and Biller. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article subject to a non-exclusive license between the authors and Frontiers Media SA, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and other Frontiers conditions are complied with.
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title Language Impairment and Right Hemiparesis in a 54-Year-Old Woman
title_full Language Impairment and Right Hemiparesis in a 54-Year-Old Woman
title_fullStr Language Impairment and Right Hemiparesis in a 54-Year-Old Woman
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title_short Language Impairment and Right Hemiparesis in a 54-Year-Old Woman
title_sort language impairment and right hemiparesis in a 54-year-old woman
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3129533/
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