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Hemorrhage in brain stem cavernoma presenting with torticollis
Amit Agrawal1, Rafael Cincu, S R Joharapurkar
1Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences, Wardha, India. dramitagrawal@gmail.com
Abstract:
Spasmodic torticollis due to an identified focal brain stem lesion is uncommon and abrupt-onset spasmodic torticollis due to midbrain lesions in humans is rarely reported. A 9-year-old female child who had fallen off a bicycle and had lost consciousness for 10 min, vomiting 2-3 times, developed acute torticollis immediately after the injury. Examinations suggested hemorrhage in brain stem cavernoma. A search of the literature written in English revealed that this type of presentation has not been reported previously.
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