A woman with progressive motor and cognitive complaints.
Manuel SalavisaDanna KrupkaFilipa SerrazinaPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2023)
We describe the case of a 48-year-old woman presenting with a two-year history of progressive left hemibody-weakness associated with frequent falls, speech difficulties and cognitive dysfunction. Her clinical examination was noticeable for subcortical frontal-predominant cognitive impairment, asymmetrical spastic paraparesis, pseudobulbar findings and delayed horizontal saccade initiation with head-trust phenomenon. Apart from brain atrophy in excess for her age group, the patient's initial cranial-spinal MRI appearances were unremarkable.
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