Case 16-2003

Abstract

Presentation of CaseA 58-year-old, right-handed woman was admitted to the hospital because of left hemiparesis.The patient had been well until five days earlier, when a right frontal headache developed, with radiation to the right eye and right ear; suspecting sinusitis, her physician prescribed amoxicillin. Four days before admission, weakness developed in the left arm, and she began to drop items that she was holding in her left hand. During the next three days, the weakness worsened. On the day of admission, she awoke with weakness in the left leg; at one point, she fell from a chair and . . .