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
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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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author Gencpinar, Pinar
Çetiner, Ebru
Akyuz, Mahmut
Karaali, Kamil
Koken, Resit
Haspolat, Senay
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description 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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spelling pubmed-42744112015-01-07 A Late-Onset Seizure in a Child Due to Intracranial Needle Gencpinar, Pinar Çetiner, Ebru Akyuz, Mahmut Karaali, Kamil Koken, Resit Haspolat, Senay Neurol Int Case Report 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. PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2014-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4274411/ /pubmed/25568741 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/ni.2014.5662 Text en ©Copyright P. Gencpinar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Haspolat, Senay
A Late-Onset Seizure in a Child Due to Intracranial Needle
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