Neocortical death after cardiac arrest. A clinical, neurophysiological, and neuropathological report of two cases

Lancet. 1971 Sep 11;2(7724):560-5. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(71)92148-9.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Amygdala / pathology
  • Autopsy
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / etiology*
  • Brain Damage, Chronic / pathology
  • Brain Death*
  • Brain Stem / pathology
  • Caudate Nucleus / pathology
  • Cerebral Cortex*
  • Cerebral Ventricles / pathology
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy / etiology
  • Evoked Potentials
  • Frontal Lobe / pathology
  • Globus Pallidus / pathology
  • Heart Arrest / complications*
  • Heart Arrest / mortality
  • Heart Arrest / pathology
  • Humans
  • Hypothalamus / pathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Occipital Lobe / pathology
  • Pupil / physiopathology
  • Reflex, Stretch
  • Respiration
  • Time Factors