The clinical data obtained from the neurologic examination coupled with a careful history are interpreted to arrive at an anatomic localization that best explains the clinical findings (Table 180-2), to narrow the list of diagnostic possibilities, and to select the diagnostic tests most likely to be informative.
For a more detailed discussion, see Lowenstein DH, Martin JB, Hauser SL: Approach to the Patient with Neurologic Disease, Chap. 437, p. 2535, in HPIM-19. |