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Headache Or Aneurism? Check These Cranial Nerve Symptoms To Help Make the Diagnosis

Published on Mon May 20, 2013

Question: There are several symptoms listed but what’s the best diagnosis in this scenario?

Hx: present illness; Patient  is a 69-year-old mother, who is right handed and states for 4 days now has had a severe headache with visual blurring and diplopia, all right sided. She denied any Hx of seizures, motor sensory deficit, nausea and vomiting. [...]
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