Clinical Reasoning : A 24-Year-Old Woman With Penetrating Neck Injury From a Needlefish

Evaluating patients with a traumatic spinal cord injury can be complicated by other injuries. In this case, a 24-year-old woman injured by a needlefish presented with combined motor and sensory defects, cranial nerve deficits, and a blunt vascular injury. This case highlights the importance of neurologic and vascular localizations and an understanding of spinal cord injuries involving various ascending and descending tracts. Appreciation of these anatomical considerations through this case illustrates the diagnostic approach to neurologic evaluation. While we present a traumatic etiology for multiple neurologic syndromes, this case gives readers an opportunity to develop a comprehensive differential diagnosis and tailor investigations for other relevant etiologies. Readers walking through this stepwise process will ultimately arrive at several distinct but related diagnoses.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:102

Enthalten in:

Neurology - 102(2024), 6 vom: 26. Feb., Seite e209225

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Alick P [VerfasserIn]
Hernandez, Sean T [VerfasserIn]
Kaderali, Zul [VerfasserIn]
Heran, Navraj [VerfasserIn]
Erdenebold, Undrakh-Erdene [VerfasserIn]
Fahed, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Walker, Gregory B [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 22.02.2024

Date Revised 22.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1212/WNL.0000000000209225

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM368674924