Abdominal epilepsy, an uncommon cause of chronic and recurrent abdominal pain: a case report

Abdominal epilepsy is an uncommon cause of paroxysmal abdominal pain. It is relatively common in children, but very rare in adults. We report a case of 38‐year‐old, who reported with recurrent abdominal pain for 2 years. Electroencephalography confirmed the diagnosis; he responded well to carbamazep...

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Autores principales: Mpondo, Bonaventura C. T., Mwasada, Godfrey, Nyundo, Azan A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5134139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.711
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description Abdominal epilepsy is an uncommon cause of paroxysmal abdominal pain. It is relatively common in children, but very rare in adults. We report a case of 38‐year‐old, who reported with recurrent abdominal pain for 2 years. Electroencephalography confirmed the diagnosis; he responded well to carbamazepine and remains symptom‐free on follow‐up.
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spelling pubmed-51341392016-12-15 Abdominal epilepsy, an uncommon cause of chronic and recurrent abdominal pain: a case report Mpondo, Bonaventura C. T. Mwasada, Godfrey Nyundo, Azan A. Clin Case Rep Case Reports Abdominal epilepsy is an uncommon cause of paroxysmal abdominal pain. It is relatively common in children, but very rare in adults. We report a case of 38‐year‐old, who reported with recurrent abdominal pain for 2 years. Electroencephalography confirmed the diagnosis; he responded well to carbamazepine and remains symptom‐free on follow‐up. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC5134139/ /pubmed/27980744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.711 Text en © 2016 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Abdominal epilepsy, an uncommon cause of chronic and recurrent abdominal pain: a case report
title Abdominal epilepsy, an uncommon cause of chronic and recurrent abdominal pain: a case report
title_full Abdominal epilepsy, an uncommon cause of chronic and recurrent abdominal pain: a case report
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title_full_unstemmed Abdominal epilepsy, an uncommon cause of chronic and recurrent abdominal pain: a case report
title_short Abdominal epilepsy, an uncommon cause of chronic and recurrent abdominal pain: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5134139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980744
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.711
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