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Midbrain deafness with normal brainstem auditory evoked potentials.

E Vitte·F Tankéré·I Bernat·A Zouaoui·G Lamas·J Soudant
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The authors report two cases of patients with word deafness. The word deafness occurred after a head injury for the first patient and after an arterio venous malformation embolization for the second patient. MRI demonstrated bilateral lesions of the inferior colliculi but brainstem auditory-evoked potentials (BAEP) were within normal limits. These cases demonstrated that lesions involving the two inferior colliculi induced pure word deafness but do not affect BAEP.

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E Vitte, F Tankéré, I Bernat, A Zouaoui, G Lamas, J Soudant. 2002-03-26. Midbrain deafness with normal brainstem auditory evoked potentials.. https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.58.6.970

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