Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome- a rare cause of refractory epilepsy

Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome (DDMS) is a syndrome associated with refractory epilepsy. DDMS is a rare syndrome characterized by seizures, facial asymmetry, contralateral hemiplegia and mental retardation. The characteristic radiologic features are cerebral hemiatrophy with homolateral hypertrophy o...

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Autores principales: Malik, Prerna, Garg, Rajinder, Gulia, Anil kumar D, Kario, Joginder
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4277607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25561948
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author Malik, Prerna
Garg, Rajinder
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description Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome (DDMS) is a syndrome associated with refractory epilepsy. DDMS is a rare syndrome characterized by seizures, facial asymmetry, contralateral hemiplegia and mental retardation. The characteristic radiologic features are cerebral hemiatrophy with homolateral hypertrophy of the skull and sinuses. The case was an 18 years old female with seizures, hemiparesis of the right side and mental retardation who was diagnosed with DDMS based on computed tomography.
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spelling pubmed-42776072015-01-05 Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome- a rare cause of refractory epilepsy Malik, Prerna Garg, Rajinder Gulia, Anil kumar D Kario, Joginder Iran J Psychiatry Short Communication Dyke-Davidoff-Masson Syndrome (DDMS) is a syndrome associated with refractory epilepsy. DDMS is a rare syndrome characterized by seizures, facial asymmetry, contralateral hemiplegia and mental retardation. The characteristic radiologic features are cerebral hemiatrophy with homolateral hypertrophy of the skull and sinuses. The case was an 18 years old female with seizures, hemiparesis of the right side and mental retardation who was diagnosed with DDMS based on computed tomography. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4277607/ /pubmed/25561948 Text en Copyright: © Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Tehran University of Medical Sciences This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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