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The condition may be of peripheral or central origin, and under each of these circumstances a variety of causes should be considered. The basic question, peripheral vs central, is not always easy to decide. More than one patient has received conservative or even operative treatment for a slipped disk, while in fact suffering either from cortical monoparesis due to ischemic stroke, or from a crossed leg palsy (see below).
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Poeck, K. (1985). Footdrop, Unilateral. In: Diagnostic Decisions in Neurology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70693-6_16
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