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Case 42 - 78-year-old male with a 6-month history of failure to thrive from severe malnutrition, a remote history of plasma cell dyscrasia, and multiple recent episodes of Herpes zoster infection presented with left greater than right ptosis, left eye pain, diplopia, and facial numbness

from Section 3 - Otolaryngology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Edited by
Bharti Khurana ,
Jacob Mandell ,
Asha Sarma  and
Stephen Ledbetter
Bharti Khurana
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jacob Mandell
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts
Stephen Ledbetter
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book
Case-Oriented Fast Focused Effective Education
 , pp. 296 - 306
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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