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Inability to sneeze as a manifestation of medullary neoplasm
R A Martin1, S F Handel, A E Aldama
1Department of Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.
Neurology
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
A young man with headache was unable to sneeze despite a strong sensory urge to do so. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a cystic neoplasm in the medulla oblongata that presumably interrupted the efferent arc of the sneezing reflex.