Todor P. Shamov‡, Ioanna Tivcheva§, Tihomir Eftimov‡Corresponding author: Todor P. Shamov ( shamov@abv.bg ) © Todor P. Shamov, Ioanna Tivcheva, Tihomir Eftimov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Shamov TP, Tivcheva I, Eftimov T (2019) Postoperative Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome in an Adult Patient. Folia Medica 61(4): 630-633. https://doi.org/10.3897/folmed.61.e47829 |  |
Postoperative cerebellar mutism syndrome is a common complication occurring after surgical treatment of medulloblastoma in children. The clinical course of this syndrome is characterized by delayed onset after the surgical intervention, loss of speech, emotional lability, hypotonia, and oropharyngeal dysfunction. This syndrome is rarely seen in adults. We report here a case of postoperative cerebellar mutism in a 25-year-old female patient, who underwent a surgical intervention due to medulloblastoma of the forth ventricle. There are very few reported cases in literature of this syndrome. In the discussion we discuss the likely reasons for the syndrome to develop in adult patients.