FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 329:1028-1033 September 30, 1993 Number 14 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited PubMed Citation

Presentation of Case

An 83-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of severe upper-back pain, hypertension, and anuria.

There was a history of hypertension that dated back 34 years and was treated in recent years with propranolol, atenolol, and hydrochlorothiazide-triamterene at various times. She had smoked half a pack of cigarettes daily for unknown years. Ten years before admission the patient began to have transient cerebral ischemic attacks that were characterized by weakness and numbness of the left hand and arm. Two years thereafter a right cerebrovascular accident was treated at another hospital, with a satisfactory recovery.

Three months later she was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Timothy E. Guiney's Diagnoses

Pathological Discussion

Anatomical Diagnosis

Addendum

References

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.