Locked-in Syndrome Due to Metastatic Pontomedullary Tumor - Case Report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 497-500

  Inci, Servet ^a   Özgen, Tuncalp ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Locked in syndrome; Malignant melanoma; Pontomedullary tumor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINKING; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; BREATHING DISORDER; BULBAR PARALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EYE MOVEMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MUTISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONTOMEDULLARY TUMOR; QUADRIPLEGIA;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; QUADRIPLEGIA; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0142119408     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.43.497     Document Type: Article

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