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Francisco Pereira da Silva-Júnior, MD; Ricardo de Carvalho Nogueira, MD; Ricardo Nitrini, MD, PhD; Leandro Tavares Lucato, MD, PhD; Milberto Scaff, MD, PhD; Paulo Eurípedes Marchiori, MD, PhD

Arch Neurol. 2009;66(3):406-407.

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A 62-year-old woman with arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented with a 1-month history of rapidly progressive memory impairment for recent events and topographic disorientation. Examination revealed temporospatial disorientation and poor performance in delayed recall tests, without any other significant clinical or neurological findings.

The patient had a mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration of 14.3 g/dL (to convert to grams per liter, multiply by 10), a white blood cell count of 10 600/µL (to convert to x10⁹/L, multiply by 0.001), a platelet count of 132 x 10³/µL (to convert to x10⁹/L, multiply by 1.0), and a lactic dehydrogenase level of 511 U/L (to convert to microkatals per liter, multiply by 0.0167). Human immunodeficiency virus infection was ruled out. Magnetic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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