Libman L J, Matthews J H
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1976 Dec;39(12):1240-1. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.39.12.1240.
A patient in the pre-ataxic stage of tabes dorsalis suffered from gastric crises, but in addition had numerous episodes of apnoea and coma which in the older literature have been described as 'oblongata crises'--the presumption being that the crises are due to a brain stem disturbance.