[CNS dysfunction as symptom of internal disease].
Patients with symptoms and signs of central nervous system dysfunction frequently present to outpatient clinics and emergency departments. Disturbances of consciousness and cognition, headache, vertigo, dizziness or light-headedness, seizures, hemiparesis or hemisensory deficits, and other motor dysfunctions may be due to diseases of internal medicine in up to 50% of cases apart from exclusively neurological diseases. A neurological syndrome oriented analysis of each clinical case allows the exact differential diagnosis of the causes of the disease. A combined approach of internal medicine physicians and neurologists is often warranted.
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Neurologische Klinik, Katholisches Klinikum gGmbH Marienhof und Brüderhaus, Kardinal-Krementz-Strasse 1-5, 56073 Koblenz. j.woehrle@kk-koblenz.de
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D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*
Veränderungen des ZNS als Symptome wichtiger innerer Erkrankungen.