A Late-Onset Seizure in a Child Due to Intracranial Needle

Placing of sewing needles in the brain through the anterior fontanel is a rare entity. There are very few cases reported in literature. Most of them were asymptomatic, but some of them presented with seizure. We report here a 14-year-old boy, who was admitted to the Pediatric Neurology Department wi...

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Autores principales: Gencpinar, Pinar, Çetiner, Ebru, Akyuz, Mahmut, Karaali, Kamil, Koken, Resit, Haspolat, Senay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25568741
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2014.5662
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Sumario:Placing of sewing needles in the brain through the anterior fontanel is a rare entity. There are very few cases reported in literature. Most of them were asymptomatic, but some of them presented with seizure. We report here a 14-year-old boy, who was admitted to the Pediatric Neurology Department with a history of generalized tonic-clonic seizures due to sewing needle located in the frontal lobe.

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