Abstract
After surgery for a tegmental ponto-mesencephalic cavernoma, a patient developed sleep-related excessive fragmentary myoclonus, diffuse myoclonic jerks, simple quasipurposeful movements of the limbs, and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behaviour disorder as motor features of status dissociatus, a condition in which elements of one state of being (wake, NREM and REM sleep) pathologically intrude into another.
Copyright 2004 Movement Disorder Society
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use
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Brain Neoplasms / pathology
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Brain Neoplasms / surgery*
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Clonazepam / therapeutic use
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Dissociative Disorders / etiology*
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Electroencephalography
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Electromyography
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Heart Rate / physiology
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Hemangioma, Cavernous / pathology
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Hemangioma, Cavernous / surgery*
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Humans
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Male
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Neurosurgical Procedures / methods
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Nocturnal Myoclonus Syndrome / diagnosis*
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Nocturnal Myoclonus Syndrome / drug therapy
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Pons / pathology
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Pons / surgery*
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Postoperative Complications*
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Sleep, REM / physiology
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Tegmentum Mesencephali / pathology
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Tegmentum Mesencephali / surgery*
Substances
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Anticonvulsants
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Clonazepam