Hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion

We report a case of Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE), who presented with epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) and a frontal lobe lesion. The diagnosis of HE remained elusive until the serum thyroid antibodies became positive 7 months after the onset of EPC. The histopathology of this frontal lesio...

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Autores principales: Rukmangadachar, Lokesh A., Dandapat, Sudeepta, Bit‐Ivan, Esther N., Peng, Yen‐Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1306
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author Rukmangadachar, Lokesh A.
Dandapat, Sudeepta
Bit‐Ivan, Esther N.
Peng, Yen‐Yi
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description We report a case of Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE), who presented with epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) and a frontal lobe lesion. The diagnosis of HE remained elusive until the serum thyroid antibodies became positive 7 months after the onset of EPC. The histopathology of this frontal lesion showed nonvasculitic inflammation.
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spelling pubmed-57719062018-01-26 Hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion Rukmangadachar, Lokesh A. Dandapat, Sudeepta Bit‐Ivan, Esther N. Peng, Yen‐Yi Clin Case Rep Case Reports We report a case of Hashimoto's encephalopathy (HE), who presented with epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) and a frontal lobe lesion. The diagnosis of HE remained elusive until the serum thyroid antibodies became positive 7 months after the onset of EPC. The histopathology of this frontal lesion showed nonvasculitic inflammation. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5771906/ /pubmed/29375853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1306 Text en © 2017 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rukmangadachar, Lokesh A.
Dandapat, Sudeepta
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Peng, Yen‐Yi
Hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion
title Hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion
title_full Hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion
title_fullStr Hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion
title_full_unstemmed Hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion
title_short Hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion
title_sort hashimoto's encephalopathy – presenting with epilepsia partialis continua and a frontal lobe lesion
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5771906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29375853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.1306
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