Vitamin B12 deficiency: An unusual cause for recurrent generalised seizures with pancytopaenia

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Naha, Kushal ^a   Dasari, Sowjanya ^a   Vivek Raman, G ^a   Prabhu, Mukhyaprana ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC GASTRITIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFUSION; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLOR; PANCYTOPENIA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETICULOCYTOSIS; SIDE EFFECT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84867175343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2012-006632     Document Type: Article

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