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. 1992 Jan;55(1):68–70. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.55.1.68

The differentiation of peripheral effector neuron failure from acute brain stem dysfunction in a critically ill patient.

P G Bain 1, G Harwood 1, G E Holder 1, B M Evans 1
PMCID: PMC488939  PMID: 1312583

Abstract

A patient appeared to be in coma following pneumococcal meningitis, an intracerebral haemorrhage, and a cardiac arrest. Late in the course of his illness neurophysiological investigations confirmed a proposal that he also had a fulminant acute demyelinating polyneuropathy which, for a period of five days, rendered the patient completely unresponsive. The patient recovered and is now working without any disability.

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