Rogel-Ortiz F

Language: Spanish
References: 22
Page: 159-161
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ABSTRACT

Most of the patients who suffer epileptic seizures do not present any brain injury as a consequence of the seizures. However, occasionally some patients have well-documented focal brain injuries as direct consequence of the seizures. The particularity of these injuries is that they resolve spontaneously in few days. Because its frequency is very low, they are not well known, originating misdiagnosis and treatment. Herein it is presented a case of focal brain damage provoked for an epileptic status with spontaneous healing, and we make some important considerations about this kind of lesions, and on its possible origin.

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