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Thursday, October, 29, 2009

Symptoms Of Pseudotumor Cerebri

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Is Pseudotumor Cerebri ever associated with facial numbness and facial twitching?

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Is Pseudotumor Cerebri ever associated with facial numbness and facial twitching?  Also, how does a physician differentiate between Pseudotumor Cerebri and Malignant Hypertension since one of the major things that they both have in common is increase in blood pressure and increased cranial pressure?

 

I have recently been diagnosed with PTC and have been unable to find out if maybe this is why my face is numb and twitchy all the time.  Recently, I have gone from it b...

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