Nihon Kikan Shokudoka Gakkai Kaiho
Online ISSN : 1880-6848
Print ISSN : 0029-0645
ISSN-L : 0029-0645
How Long Can a Man Survive After a Long Coma Due to Asphyxia at Bronchoscopy
H. Ogata[in Japanese]
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1964 Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 98-105

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Authors reported a thirty-nine years old man who had been suffering from the carcinoma of thyroid gland and pneumoconiosis and then who was dead after a long coma about 126 days due to dyspnea at bronchoscopy.
This coma might be proper to name “protracted unconciousness” and during this condition, he continued being decerebrated rigidity with his general voluntary muscles spasmodic. The result of pathological sections was that there was apparently proved the wide-spreaded softening in superficial brain cortex and in brain stem.
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