The symptoms: The teenager was admitted to a hospital in the Netherlands for knee surgery after getting injured while playing soccer. The surgery was successful, but when the patient woke up from the ...
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After a Knee Surgery, This Teenager Wakes up Speaking a Foreign Language and Has Forgotten His Mother Tongue
A 17-year-old Dutch boy who underwent a routine knee operation stunned doctors and his family when he woke up speaking only English and was unable to understand or speak Dutch—his native language. The ...
Lost in Another Language: A Case Report After awakening from general anesthesia, a patient temporarily lost the ability to speak his native language, but could speak in English. Read about this ...
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Diagnostic dilemma: After surgery, a 17-year-old could speak only a foreign language
The patient: A 17-year-old boy in the Netherlands The symptoms: The teenager was admitted to a hospital in the Netherlands ...
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