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To the Editor: Case 9-1999 (March 25 issue)¹ involves a 75-year-old woman with Wegener's granulomatosis. Dr. Schwartz's discussion of the neurologic aspects of this patient's illness is scholarly. However, he fails to address important parts of the history and laboratory findings. The patient had profound muscular weakness: "Two weeks before admission, she fell in the bathtub and remained there all night because of generalized weakness. One day before admission, she again fell, striking her occiput and lying on the floor for two hours because of diffuse weakness." Laboratory data (presented in Table 2 of the report) included serum calcium and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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