Retracted Article: A 67-year-old man with facial droop, ataxia and vertigo
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Post-publication record
- Nature
- Retraction
- Reason
- Error in Data;Error in Results and/or Conclusions;Error in Text;
- Date
- 9/8/2020 0:00
- Flagged by OpenAlex?
- Yes
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Abstract
A 67-year-old white man presented to the emergency department with a 10-day history of left-sided facial numbness, vertigo and nausea, along with new-onset gait imbalance. He had been treated for 1 week with prednisone (45 mg/d) and amoxicillin (500 mg 3 times daily) for suspected Bell palsy and
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The record
- Venue
- Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Topic
- Facial Nerve Paralysis Treatment and Research
- Field
- Medicine
- Canadian institutions
- McMaster UniversityHamilton Health Sciences
- Funders
- McMaster University
- Keywords
- VertigoMedicineNauseaAtaxiaPalsyPrednisoneNystagmusFacial paralysisEmergency departmentPediatricsSurgeryAudiologyPsychiatryAlternative medicinePathology
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes