Clinical reasoning: a 62-year-old woman with deafness, unilateral visual loss, and episodes of numbness

Neurology. 2009 Apr 21;72(16):e72-8. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000347010.38843.00.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antioxidants / therapeutic use
  • Blindness / etiology*
  • Blindness / physiopathology
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain / physiopathology
  • Cochlear Nerve / pathology
  • Cochlear Nerve / physiopathology
  • DNA, Mitochondrial
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Diagnostic Errors / prevention & control*
  • Electromyography
  • Female
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / etiology*
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Hypesthesia / etiology*
  • Hypesthesia / physiopathology
  • MELAS Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • MELAS Syndrome / drug therapy
  • MELAS Syndrome / physiopathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Middle Aged
  • Mitochondria / metabolism
  • Mitochondria / pathology
  • Mutation / genetics
  • Ophthalmoscopes
  • Optic Nerve / pathology
  • Optic Nerve / physiopathology
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Vitamin B Complex / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Antioxidants
  • DNA, Mitochondrial
  • Vitamin B Complex