Unilateral brain oedema related to focal status epilepticus

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ali, Noura Abdulwahid ^a   Palat Chirakkara, Sudhir Kumar ^a   Reddy, Jagan Jinna ^a   Sinha, Shobhit ^a  

^a MAFRAQ HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE; DIAZEPAM; DOPAMINE; ETIRACETAM; LORAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TOXICITY; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CROSSED CEREBELLAR DIASCHISIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMOBILITY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANEOPLASTIC NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNILATERAL BRAIN EDEMA; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

EID: 84891862785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-200864     Document Type: Article

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