Clinical Reasoning: A 59-Year-Old Woman Presenting With Diplopia, Dysarthria, Right-Sided Weakness, and Encephalopathy

Neurology. 2021 Aug 24;97(8):e859-e864. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012151. Epub 2021 May 4.

Authors

Giovanna S Manzano¹, Matthew Torre², Marlise R Luskin², Henrikas Vaitkevicius²

Affiliations

¹ From the Departments of Neurology (G.S.M., H.V.) and Pathology (M.T.), Brigham and Women's Hospital; and Division of Leukemia (M.R.L.), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA. gmanzano@partners.org.
² From the Departments of Neurology (G.S.M., H.V.) and Pathology (M.T.), Brigham and Women's Hospital; and Division of Leukemia (M.R.L.), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic / toxicity*
Clinical Reasoning*
Confusion / etiology
Diplopia / etiology
Dysarthria / etiology
Female
Humans
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / drug therapy*
Methotrexate / toxicity*
Middle Aged
Muscle Weakness / etiology
Neurotoxicity Syndromes / complications
Neurotoxicity Syndromes / diagnosis*
Sleepiness

Substances

Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Methotrexate

Grants and funding

T32 HL007627/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States