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Limb-shaking TIA: on the borders of evidence-based medicine

Authors: Antonio Carolei, Pietro Amedeo Modesti

Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine | Issue 5/2017

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The case reported by Tiseo et al. [1] underlies the importance of considering and recognizing low cerebral perfusion among the possible causes of jerky unilateral hyperkinetic movements. In this case, the diagnostic difficulty lies in the fact that ischemic brain damage is a common cause of epilepsy in the elderly. A careful history and eyewitness description is crucial to the differentiation of seizures and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures [2]. …

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Title: Limb-shaking TIA: on the borders of evidence-based medicine
Authors: Antonio Carolei
Pietro Amedeo Modesti
Publication date: 01-08-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine / Issue 5/2017
Print ISSN: 1828-0447
Electronic ISSN: 1970-9366
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-017-1666-0

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