Misleading bilateral blink reflex loss in a severe tetanus case

Tetanus is rare and often forgotten in the diagnostic workup. The diagnosis is mainly based on typical clinical symptoms, because of missing sensitive paraclinical test. As described in our case, a missing bilateral blink reflex may occur in severe tetanus, which should not lead to the rejection of...

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Autores principales: Neumann, Bernhard, Schulte‐Mattler, Wilhelm, Fuchs, Kornelius, Zellner, Ruth, Boy, Sandra, Angstwurm, Klemens
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5290501/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28174628
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.772
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author Neumann, Bernhard
Schulte‐Mattler, Wilhelm
Fuchs, Kornelius
Zellner, Ruth
Boy, Sandra
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description Tetanus is rare and often forgotten in the diagnostic workup. The diagnosis is mainly based on typical clinical symptoms, because of missing sensitive paraclinical test. As described in our case, a missing bilateral blink reflex may occur in severe tetanus, which should not lead to the rejection of the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-52905012017-02-07 Misleading bilateral blink reflex loss in a severe tetanus case Neumann, Bernhard Schulte‐Mattler, Wilhelm Fuchs, Kornelius Zellner, Ruth Boy, Sandra Angstwurm, Klemens Clin Case Rep Case Reports Tetanus is rare and often forgotten in the diagnostic workup. The diagnosis is mainly based on typical clinical symptoms, because of missing sensitive paraclinical test. As described in our case, a missing bilateral blink reflex may occur in severe tetanus, which should not lead to the rejection of the diagnosis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5290501/ /pubmed/28174628 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.772 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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