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To tPA or Not to tPA: Two Medical-Legal Misadventures of Diagnosing a Cerebrovascular Accident as a Stroke Mimic
We present two recent successfully litigated malpractice cases in which patients with cerebrovascular accidents were misdiagnosed as stroke mimics. The first was diagnosed as a hemiplegic migraine, which occurs in only 0.01% of the population. The second was diagnosed as a conversion disorder, which...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6682222/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404351 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2019.4.42186 |