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focal neurologic sign
Etiology:
1) stroke
2) transient ischemic attack (TIA)
Clinical manifestations:
1) motor dysfunction:*
a) dysarthria
- slurred speech
- aphasia
b) muscle weakness
- hemiparesis
- clumsiness
b) ataxia
d) cranial nerve palsies
- dysphagia
2) sensory dysfunction:*
- numbness
- paresthesias
- blindness
- monocular blindness (same side)
- homonymous hemianopia (opposite visual field)
- loss of balance
- vertigo
- diplopia
* motor & sensory dysfunction not exclusive.
General
neurologic sign/symptom; neurologic deficit