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Below are reader-submitted proposed diagnoses for the case “Tongue Deviation in a Man with Alcoholism,” published online January 20, 2009. To see the actual diagnosis and a discussion, click here.
Response 1
Diagnosis: Conversion reaction/Hysterical hemiparesis
IL (Internal Medicine, California)
Response 2
Head Cancer and neck cancer, probably tongue.
Response 3
Diagnosis, stroke.
No degree or affiliations.
Response 4
Medial medullary syndrome secondary to hemorrhage; subarachnoid, vertebrobasilar or subdural.
SA (Medical Science, New Jersey)
Response 5
Right medullary-pontine infarction
Response 6
Alcohol addiction cause damage to brain stem which cause multi infarcted area in medulla oblongata which lead to hemiparesis of Lt side and deviation of tongue…