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Resistance to eye opening in patients with disorders of consciousness

Hjalmar Jochem van Ommen1,2, Aurore Thibaut1,3, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse1,4

  • 1GIGA-Consciousness, Coma Science Group, and Neurology Department, University Hospital of Liege, University of Liege, Avenue de l'Hopital, 1, Liege, Belgium.

Journal of Neurology
|April 7, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
Disorders of consciousnessMinimally conscious stateResistance to eye openingUnresponsive wakefulness syndrome

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