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Multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: A case report

We report a case of a 43-year-old woman with brainstem encephalitis in the third trimester of pregnancy. She presented complex visual and auditory hallucinations in the acute disease phase (hearing opera arias and seeing room furniture upside-down). Hallucinations resolved with antiviral treatment.

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Autores principales: Silva, Melissa Castello Branco e, Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642010DN40400016
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spelling pubmed-56190712017-12-06 Multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: A case report Silva, Melissa Castello Branco e Brucki, Sonia Maria Dozzi Dement Neuropsychol Case Report We report a case of a 43-year-old woman with brainstem encephalitis in the third trimester of pregnancy. She presented complex visual and auditory hallucinations in the acute disease phase (hearing opera arias and seeing room furniture upside-down). Hallucinations resolved with antiviral treatment. Associação de Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC5619071/ /pubmed/29213710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642010DN40400016 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: A case report
title Multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: A case report
title_full Multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: A case report
title_fullStr Multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: A case report
title_short Multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: A case report
title_sort multiple hallucinations due to brainstem injury: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5619071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29213710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1980-57642010DN40400016
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