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When brain devices go wrong: a patient with a malfunctioning deep brain stimulator (DBS) presents to the emergency department

A man in his 50s attended the emergency department with an acute deterioration in his Parkinson’s symptoms, presenting with limb rigidity, widespread tremor, choreiform dyskinesia, dysarthria, intense sadness and a severe occipital headache. After excluding common differentials for sudden-onset park...

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Autores principales: Straw, Isabel, Ashworth, Charlotte, Radford, Nicola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9806045/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36572446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2022-252305