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Protracted Coma from Delayed Thrombosis of Basilar Artery Following Electrical InjuryClinicopathological Report of a Case
ERNST HAASE, M.D.;
JOSEPH A. LUHAN, M.D.
AMA Arch Neurol. 1959;1(2):195-202.
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Prolongation of life for more than a year after massive encephalomalacia involving the reticular activating substance of the brain stem with an essentially integral cerebral cortex in itself must be an exceptional occurrence. In the case under consideration the patient's collapse followed accidental exposure to a high-voltage electrical current after 19 days during which some personality change was observed. Necropsy revealed occlusion of the basilar artery. This sequence of events raises the question of how much such electrical injury contributed to the subsequent development of an occluding thrombus.
Report of Case
A previously well 45-year-old maintenance man suffered an electrical shock on June 20, 1955, while working on a high-voltage electrical switch box. The sudden flash of lightning temporarily blinded him; he complained of blurred vision, dizziness, and headaches and consulted a physician who made a diagnosis of thermal blepharitis and conjunctivitis. However, the patient was able to stay on
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Author Affiliations
Chicago
From the Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine (Dr. Haase), and the Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University and the Cook County Hospital (Dr. Luhan).
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Jan. 30, 1959.
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