Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 39-2006. A 24-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus, seizures, and right arm weakness.

From the Departments of Neurology ( J.-H.J.C., K.F.), Rheumatology (J.K.), Medicine and Infectious Disease (R.P.W.), Radiology (M.E.M.), and Pathology (E.T.H.-W.), Massachusetts General Hospital; and the Departments of Neurology (J.-H.J.C., K.F.), Medicine (J.K., R.P.W.), Radiology (M.E.M.), and Pathology (E.T.H.-W.), Harvard Medical School.

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