"Locked-in" syndrome: report of seven cases.
Seven cases of the "locked-in" syndrome are described. This is a disorder in which a conscious, mute patient is completely paralysed apart from some form of eye movement, usually as a result of an infarct in the ventral pons. Such patients are often assumed to be in coma and as a result may be distressed by inappropriate conversation around the bedside.
D000328:Adult; D000405:Akinetic Mutism / Q000175:diagnosis; D001344:Autopsy; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000473:pathology; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications; D003128:Coma / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009155:Mutism / Q000175:diagnosis; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D010243:Paralysis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011149:Pons / Q000473:pathology; D012018:Reflex; D012867:Skin / Q000294:innervation; D013577:Syndrome; D014110:Touch