INVESTIGATION OF UNILATERAL SENSORY OR MOTOR SYMPTOMS - FREQUENCY OF NEUROLOGICAL PATHOLOGY DEPENDS ON SIDE OF SYMPTOMS

The records of 82 patients who had undergone inpatient neurological in vestigation for unilateral motor symptoms, sensory symptoms, or both, without definite neurological signs, were reviewed. Diagnosis of a phy sical disorder was more frequent if symptoms were on the right side ra ther than on the left (odds ratio (OR) = 7.7, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 2.6-23), and in males than in females (OR = 3.0, 95% CI 1.1-8 .3).