Clinical Reasoning: Subacute paresis in a 28-year-old man with HIV.

Neurology

From the Departments of Neurology (Y.H., N.M.) and Pathology (M.G.), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Department of Pathology (M.G.), Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock; and Department of Neurology (R.S.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

Published: February 2018

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