Upper motor neuron lesion.
An MRI confirmed it that evening. M. Leblanc had a slow bleed over the left hemisphere. He underwent a burr hole drainage the next day. Within a week, his hand relaxed. He smiled fully for the first time in a month. Semiologie medicale- L-apprentissage pratique d...
She looked at his face. The nasolabial fold was slightly flattened on the left. “Have you noticed any trouble smiling?” she asked. Upper motor neuron lesion
For in the end, medical semiology is not a science of signs alone. It is the practical learning of compassion in action. It is the story of how we learn to see the invisible, hear the unsaid, and touch the untold—one patient at a time. Leblanc had a slow bleed over the left hemisphere
Clara proceeded through the review of systems. Nothing. She was about to leave when she remembered something Dr. Rivière had said: “Before you ask a single question, look. Then look again.”