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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Caplan, Louis R; Lioutas, Vasileios-Arsenios
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
Series: What do I do now?
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Carrier Form: viii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780190497255
0190497254
Index Number: RC388
CLC: R743.3
Call Number: R743.3/S921-1/2nd ed.
Contents: Confused after a nap -- Headache after a beach trip -- Why are you staring over there? -- Dizziness and ataxia after lifting a vacuum -- Two generations with stroke and cognitive decline -- Ms H heads to the hospital -- The weak construction worker -- Twisted tongue and dizzy head -- Right hemibody weakness in a man with lighting-like transient facial pain -- Blurry vision -- Gastroenteritis with dizziness and ataxia -- Neck pain soon followed by right hemiparesis -- Sudden onset of double vision and left ataxic hemiparesis.
Arm pain and swelling followed by headache, right weakness, and aphasia -- More than meets the eye -- A rusty pipe -- Eyelid droopiness and body weakness -- A pain in the hand -- A ticking time bomb -- "Dancing" hand -- Double vision and jumpy eyes -- Between a rock and a hard place -- Follow you heart or your brain? -- A bloody mesh -- A Lernaean Hydra -- It looks like a stroke, walks like a stroke, and behaves like a stoke. But is it a stroke? -- A relentless headache.