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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Seizures
Epilepsy
Epilepsy (from the Ancient Greek ἐπιληψία — "seizure") is a common chronic neurological disorder characterized by seizures. These seizures are transient signs and/or symptoms of abnormal, excessive or hypersynchronous neuronal activity in the brain. About 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, and nearly two out of every three new cases are discovered in developing countries. Epilepsy is more likely to occur in young children, or people over the age of 65 years; however, it can occur to anyone at any time. As a consequence of brain surgery, epileptic seizures may occur in recovering patients...
Seizures - List of case studies
- List of Symptoms
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spleen Enuresis Epigastric pain Epileptic seizures Episodes of diffuse headache of short duration Erectile ... Scarce ideomotor initiative Seeing cobwebs Seizures Sensation of current shocks Sensation of pins and needles ...
- Glioblastoma of the right temporal occipital region
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61 years old, male. Following the onset of epileptic seizures , medical tests were performed, resulting in an expansive cerebral ... a cerebral PET , that was carried out one month after seizures onset, to assess an expansive cerebral lesion . Its conclusions ...
- Anaplastic Astrocytoma in the left temporal lobe
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and his wife denied episodes of even partial epileptic seizures or moments of loss of contact and episodes of paroxysmal aphasia. ... consciousness, mental confusion, disorientation, epileptic seizures, moments of loss of contact, paroxysmal aphasia, partial residual ...
- Metastatic Heteroplasia of the Lung
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70-year-old male underwent epileptic seizures. A brain CAT scan showed a space occupying lesion with surrounding ... at the Hospital of Cesena for the onset of epileptic seizures and was subsequently transferred to the neurology department of the ...