RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Stroke mimicking conversion disorder: two young women who put our feet back on the ground
JF Practical Neurology
JO Pract Neurol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 179
OP 181
DO 10.1136/practneurol-2011-000152
VO 12
IS 3
A1 H A Booij
A1 H L Hamburger
A1 G J Jöbsis
A1 E Y Beuerle
A1 N D Kruyt
YR 2012
UL http://pn.bmj.com/content/12/3/179.abstract
AB We describe two young female patients with symptoms and signs initially of conversion disorder. It became apparent, however, that both patients had a posterior circulation stroke. These cases remind us of just how broad the clinical presentation of neurological diseases is and illustrate how careful we must be in our own attributions, actions and diagnoses particularly when assessing patients with bizarre behaviour and with apparent inconsistencies on neurological examination.