Infantile Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by West Syndrome

Tuberculous meningitis rarely causes refractory epilepsy and is a rare cause of West syndrome. We describe three infants, who had tuberculous meningitis complicated by stroke and paradoxical tuberculoma, and, who later developed West syndrome.

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Autores principales: Dhawan, Sumeet R., Sahu, Jitendra K., Sankhyan, Naveen, Vyas, Sameer, Singhi, Pratibha D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30090146
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_137_17
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author Dhawan, Sumeet R.
Sahu, Jitendra K.
Sankhyan, Naveen
Vyas, Sameer
Singhi, Pratibha D.
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description Tuberculous meningitis rarely causes refractory epilepsy and is a rare cause of West syndrome. We describe three infants, who had tuberculous meningitis complicated by stroke and paradoxical tuberculoma, and, who later developed West syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-60572032018-08-08 Infantile Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by West Syndrome Dhawan, Sumeet R. Sahu, Jitendra K. Sankhyan, Naveen Vyas, Sameer Singhi, Pratibha D. J Pediatr Neurosci Case Report Tuberculous meningitis rarely causes refractory epilepsy and is a rare cause of West syndrome. We describe three infants, who had tuberculous meningitis complicated by stroke and paradoxical tuberculoma, and, who later developed West syndrome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6057203/ /pubmed/30090146 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_137_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Dhawan, Sumeet R.
Sahu, Jitendra K.
Sankhyan, Naveen
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Infantile Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by West Syndrome
title Infantile Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by West Syndrome
title_full Infantile Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by West Syndrome
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title_full_unstemmed Infantile Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by West Syndrome
title_short Infantile Tuberculous Meningitis Complicated by West Syndrome
title_sort infantile tuberculous meningitis complicated by west syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6057203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30090146
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpn.JPN_137_17
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