2015
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000001760
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Clinical Reasoning: An unusual diagnostic triad

Abstract: A 44-year-old woman with a history of hypothyroidism taking daily levothyroxine was admitted to an outside hospital with subacute cognitive decline. Her symptoms had started 3 weeks previously with headache, sore neck, and upper respiratory symptoms for which she sought care at a local emergency room. She did not complain of confusion or demonstrate signs of cognitive decline at that time and was discharged home with a prescription for antibiotics. A

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1

Citation Types

0
1
0

Year Published

2024
2024
2024
2024

Publication Types

Select...
1

Relationship

0
1

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 1 publication
(1 citation statement)
references
References 9 publications
0
1
0
Order By: Relevance
“…Five representative cases were adapted from Neurology’s Resident & Fellow Clinical Reasoning section (Francis et al, 2015; Choi et al, 2017; Harada et al, 2019; Lun et al, 2020; McIntosh and Scott, 2021) to mirror the clinical practice through a two-tiered diagnostic approach. The first tier required formulating and justifying an exhaustive differential diagnosis based on initial clinical presentation and findings.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Five representative cases were adapted from Neurology’s Resident & Fellow Clinical Reasoning section (Francis et al, 2015; Choi et al, 2017; Harada et al, 2019; Lun et al, 2020; McIntosh and Scott, 2021) to mirror the clinical practice through a two-tiered diagnostic approach. The first tier required formulating and justifying an exhaustive differential diagnosis based on initial clinical presentation and findings.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%