Transient Traumatic ‘Locked-in’ Syndrome
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in European Neurology
- Vol. 18 (6) , 391-394
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000115110
Abstract
The first clinical case of transient traumatic locked-in syndrome is presented. The locked-in state lasted for 3 months. The patient’s neurologic deficit and the abnormal auditory evoked responses pointed to a lesion involving the left pons and ventral midbrain. The locked-in syndrome caused by a traumatic damage of the brain stem structures can be transient and thus it may have a better prognosis than the locked-in syndrome secondary to the occlusion of the basilar artery.Keywords
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