[Tetanus--differential diagnosis of cerebrovascular stroke].

Report about a 80 year-old female patient admitted to hospital with dysarthria and dysphagia suspected to have had a stroke. The symptoms however were caused by a tetanus infection consequent upon a grossly contaminated ten-day-old wound. Since particularly geriatric patients are at risk of tetanus infections in industrialised countries, such patients ought to get regular booster-vaccinations.