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CT scan helps solve another Cuban mystery case
This article is pathologically misleading, most especially the headline.
1) The benign senescent calcifications in the basal ganglia of this 69 year old have nothing to do with acute organophosphate toxicity. There were present long before her trip to Cuba and are of no clinical import. To suggest otherwise is ignorant at best.
2) The cluster of ill-defined neurological symptoms reported in diplomatic workers in Havana has been shown to be a case of mass psychogenic illness.
The editors at JAMA Neurology should have exercised some editorial rigor before publication, to avoid the temptation to sensationalize an otherwise interesting case report. -
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Now let us see you prove the calcifications were there previously champ/-
Probably due to acute gadolinium poisoning
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