An Elderly Woman With Foot Drop and Hand Weakness
A 76-year-old woman presented several days after a sudden onset of left foot drop that occurred immediately after a fall. She also complained of anorexia, weight loss, malaise, and numbness…
A Woman With Leg Numbness, Pain, Weakness, and Slow Nerve Conduction Velocities
A 41-year-old woman was referred by another neurologist because of leg pain with numbness and tingling in the feet for 4 years. In the last 2 years, she developed leg…
A Man With Recurrent Foot Drop
A 44-year-old man presented with a 2-day history of tingling and weakness in the left leg. He had been seen 2 years previously for intermittent tingling and numbness in the…
A Man With Hand Weakness and Numbness After Skiing
A 45-year-old man had been in good health until right after he was snow skiing in Colorado, at which time he felt numb and weak in his hands; these symptoms…
A Man With Progressive Weakness and Fasciculations
A 37-year-old man presented with a 1-year history of progressive weakness in the upper and lower extremities, difficulties raising his arms above his head, and difficulty combing his hair. He…
A Uremic Man With Burning Feet
A 38-year-old man with a 2-year history of kidney failure caused by progressive glomerulonephritis requiring peritoneal dialysis presented with a 1-year history of numbness, tingling, and shooting pains in both…
A Man With a Neuropathy, Weight Loss, and Lung Nodules
A 31-year-old black man was referred from another institution for evaluation of a neuropathy with a nerve biopsy suggestive of vasculitis. He had been healthy until 1 year before when…
A Diabetic Man With Acute Onset of Pain and Swelling in the Thigh
A 48-year-old insulin-dependent diabetic man presented with a 2-week history of pain and swelling in his right thigh muscle of acute onset. Past medical history was negative. He had mild…
A Man With Progressive Weakness After a Gastroplasty
A 62-year-old man had gastroplasty for obesity 10 years previously. He presented with progressive weakness in his arms and legs with numbness in his feet for more than 2 months…
An Older Man With Leg Numbness
A 65-year-old man presented with a 1-year history of slowly progressive numbness in the feet and hands, without weakness. Past medical history was noncontributory, except for a history of hyperlipidemia…
