Case 18-2013: A 32-year-old woman with recurrent episodes of altered consciousness

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 2304-2312

  Cole, Andrew J ^a,b   Eskandar, Emad ^a,b   Mela, Theofanie ^a,b   Noebels, Jeffrey L ^c   Gonzalez, R Gilberto ^a,b   McGuone, Declan ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLONAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; LAMOTRIGINE; OXCARBAZEPINE; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLLAPSE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GLIOMA; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE TONE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SPEECH DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; VERTIGO; APHASIA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; PATHOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; APHASIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEIZURES; TEMPORAL LOBE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84878853790     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1215969     Document Type: Article

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