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Case Reports
. 2020 Jul;267(7):1883-1884.
doi: 10.1007/s00415-020-09897-y. Epub 2020 May 12.

Acute polyradiculoneuritis with locked-in syndrome in a patient with Covid-19

Thomas Pfefferkorn  1 , Rainer Dabitz  2 , Thomas von Wernitz-Keibel  3 , Johannes Aufenanger  4 , Martina Nowak-Machen  3 , Hendrik Janssen  5
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Acute polyradiculoneuritis with locked-in syndrome in a patient with Covid-19

Thomas Pfefferkorn et al. J Neurol. 2020 Jul.
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MRI (T1 weighted sequences after application of gadolinium) shows symmetrical enhancement of the anterior and posterior roots (white *) in the cervical spine (a, b) and the cauda equina (c,d) (white arrow)
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