A patient who sustained closed head injury demonstrated brachial diplegia and intact leg strength, a case of man-in-the-barrel syndrome. Extensive hemorrhagic contusion was seen in the inferior frontal lobes bilaterally. Although aptly descriptive, the syndrome is neither predictive of an exact anatomical substrate nor representative of a specific etiology.
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