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Presentation of Case

A 73-year-old right-handed man was admitted to the hospital because of weakness, drowsiness, headache, and confusion.

The patient had been well until four weeks earlier, when fatigue, anorexia, somnolence, confusion, and a severe, constant bilateral frontal headache developed, with pain on the left side of the face and jaw and neck stiffness. Two weeks before admission his vision became blurred, and an ophthalmologist found mild anterior uveitis of the right eye, with cells in the aqueous humor and slightly increased intraocular pressure. Prednisone eyedrops were prescribed, with improvement. One week before admission the patient was seen in the emergency ward, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Louis R. Caplan's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

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