英文摘要 |
The diagnosis of neurological disorders is rarely based on local symptom or signs due to the complexity of both central and peripheral nerve system control. Therefore, students must first familiarize themselves with the two-step rule of neurological diagnosis: the first 'localization' and the second 'etiological diagnosis.' The students have to localize the disease based on the reasoning skills with the help of background knowledge of functional neuroanatomy, and then speculate an etiological diagnosis using a VINDICATE approach to analyze the clinical profiles. In this paper, we illustrate the importance of clinical localization by stepwise analysis of the clinical reasoning process on two cases with similar chief complaint. |