Don’t Toss Your Turtle! Seizures and Fever in an Infant

A 10-month-old male presented with new-onset seizure activity, a 6-week fever of unknown origin, and a left-sided frontoparietal subdural fluid collection. The child’s mother reported tonic-clonic movements that lasted for about 15 min and that resolved with one dose of lorazepam. At 9 months of age...

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Autor principal: Alali, Muayad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121460/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64906-1_11
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description A 10-month-old male presented with new-onset seizure activity, a 6-week fever of unknown origin, and a left-sided frontoparietal subdural fluid collection. The child’s mother reported tonic-clonic movements that lasted for about 15 min and that resolved with one dose of lorazepam. At 9 months of age, the infant’s pediatrician had noted an increase in the patient’s head circumference.
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spelling pubmed-71214602020-04-06 Don’t Toss Your Turtle! Seizures and Fever in an Infant Alali, Muayad The Infectious Disease Diagnosis Article A 10-month-old male presented with new-onset seizure activity, a 6-week fever of unknown origin, and a left-sided frontoparietal subdural fluid collection. The child’s mother reported tonic-clonic movements that lasted for about 15 min and that resolved with one dose of lorazepam. At 9 months of age, the infant’s pediatrician had noted an increase in the patient’s head circumference. 2017-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7121460/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64906-1_11 Text en © Springer International Publishing AG 2018 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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