Quadriplegia Following Epileptic Seizure : Things to Keep in Mind

People with epilepsy are believed to be at a higher risk of incurring accidental injury than people who do not have seizures. The incidence of injury, either due to seizure or accident as a consequent of seizure is also high and varies from 0.03% to 3%. The most common injuries are head contusions,...

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Autores principales: Kozak, Hasan Hüseyin, Yeşilbudak, Zülal, Şişman, Lokman, Uca, Ali Ulvi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4877560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27226869
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2016.59.3.319
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description People with epilepsy are believed to be at a higher risk of incurring accidental injury than people who do not have seizures. The incidence of injury, either due to seizure or accident as a consequent of seizure is also high and varies from 0.03% to 3%. The most common injuries are head contusions, lacerations, burns and fractures. In this article, we present a case of quadriplegia after a generalized epileptic seizure.
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spelling pubmed-48775602016-05-25 Quadriplegia Following Epileptic Seizure : Things to Keep in Mind Kozak, Hasan Hüseyin Yeşilbudak, Zülal Şişman, Lokman Uca, Ali Ulvi J Korean Neurosurg Soc Case Report People with epilepsy are believed to be at a higher risk of incurring accidental injury than people who do not have seizures. The incidence of injury, either due to seizure or accident as a consequent of seizure is also high and varies from 0.03% to 3%. The most common injuries are head contusions, lacerations, burns and fractures. In this article, we present a case of quadriplegia after a generalized epileptic seizure. The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2016-05 2016-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4877560/ /pubmed/27226869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2016.59.3.319 Text en Copyright © 2016 The Korean Neurosurgical Society 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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