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The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations

Emergency medicine physicians are often faced with the challenging task of differentiating true acute ischemic strokes from stroke mimics. We present a case that was initially diagnosed as acute stroke. However, perfusion CT and EEG eventually led to the final diagnosis of status epilepticus. This c...

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Autores principales: Guerrero, Waldo R, Dababneh, Haitham, Eisenschenk, Stephan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22264341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-5-4
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description Emergency medicine physicians are often faced with the challenging task of differentiating true acute ischemic strokes from stroke mimics. We present a case that was initially diagnosed as acute stroke. However, perfusion CT and EEG eventually led to the final diagnosis of status epilepticus. This case further asserts the role of CT perfusion in the evaluation of patients with stroke mimics in the emergency room setting.
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spelling pubmed-32719692012-02-06 The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations Guerrero, Waldo R Dababneh, Haitham Eisenschenk, Stephan Int J Emerg Med Case Report Emergency medicine physicians are often faced with the challenging task of differentiating true acute ischemic strokes from stroke mimics. We present a case that was initially diagnosed as acute stroke. However, perfusion CT and EEG eventually led to the final diagnosis of status epilepticus. This case further asserts the role of CT perfusion in the evaluation of patients with stroke mimics in the emergency room setting. Springer 2012-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3271969/ /pubmed/22264341 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-5-4 Text en Copyright ©2012 Guerrero et al; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Guerrero, Waldo R
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The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations
title The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations
title_full The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations
title_fullStr The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations
title_full_unstemmed The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations
title_short The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations
title_sort role of perfusion ct in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion ct alterations
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3271969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22264341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-5-4
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