Clinical Reasoning: Leg weakness and stiffness at the emergency room.

Neurology

From the Departments of Neurology (K.a.E., G.S., M.P.), Infectious Diseases (C.L.), and Neurophysiology (G.S.), Karolinska University Hospital, Solna; Department of Clinical Neuroscience (K.a.E., G.S., M.P.), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm; and Department of Microbiology (S.A.), University Hospital in Örebro, Sweden.

Published: February 2019

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