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Report of a Case

ROBERT M. WEISS, M.D.

Arch Neurol. 1963;8(1):64-66.

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It is generally recognized that the appearance of the decerebrate state in patients harboring space-occupying intracranial lesions is of grave prognostic import. However, survival and recovery of such patients is well documented.¹ Survivors have exhibited varying degrees of neurological deficit, related to the decerebrate state as well as to its cause. Protracted coma, extensor rigidity, hemiparesis, hemiplegia, third-nerve palsy, homonymous hemianopsia, and ataxia have all been described. Postural diplopia, or dissociated eye movements on altering the position of the head, has not been recorded; hence this report, with some conjecture as to the locus of the lesion, is presented.

Report of a Case

A 9-year-old, right-handed white male fell while ice-skating at 5 P.M. and sustained a blow to the right parieto-occipital region of the head. There was no loss of consciousness. Two hours later, the patient complained of headache and was seen by a physician who noted no . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.

Department of Surgery, Vassar Brothers Hospital.

Footnotes
Received for publication July 2, 1962.

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