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Report of a Case

F. Miles Skultety, MD, PhD

Arch Neurol. 1968;19(1):1-14.

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ALTHOUGH patients with similar clinical syndromes had been described earlier,^1-3 the term "akinetic mutism" came into use following a report in 1941 by Cairns et al⁴ of a 14-year-old girl with an epidermoid cyst of the third ventricle. During the eight years of her illness she had several periods of "akinetic or trance-like mutism" in which she was essentially inert with her eyes open and did not speak. As time went on the term became firmly entrenched in the clinical literature and numerous cases have been reported. Klee⁵ reviewed the literature in 1961, and although he did not give specific figures, he made reference to over 27 cases which could be classified as akinetic mutism.

The syndrome has been reported with lesions in the region of the third ventricle^1,4,6-8 thalamus, and basal ganglia,^9-13 mid-brain,^12,14-16 anterior cingulate gyrus,^17-19 and also associated with basilar . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Omaha

From the Section of Neurosurgery, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 26, 1967; accepted Jan 12, 1968.

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