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Diagnostic Dilemmas

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The aim of this chapter is to review categories of neurologic diseases not covered in preceding sections. The method will be case studies with a focus on clinical–neuroanatomic correlation followed by a differential diagnosis. Analysis of laboratory data, especially cerebrospinal fluid, will be included. There will be a potpourri of diseases, many uncommon, yet all likely to be encountered at one time in a general neurologic and some medical practices. The requirement to be conversant in internal medicine will be apparent in several case reports. These case analyses and differential diagnoses are likely to go beyond the level of most readers of this text, but challenges often pique curiosity and stimulate the student or physician to think beyond the mundane, rote requirements of daily practice.

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Alpert, J.N. (2012). Diagnostic Dilemmas. In: The Neurologic Diagnosis. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6724-4_11

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