A Cerebral Malaria Simulating an Epileptic Seizure
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A Cerebral Malaria Simulating an Epileptic Seizure
The occurrence of tonic clonic convulsion in an irregularly monitored epileptic patient may pose a problem of differential diagnosis with other convulsant pathologies such as cerebral malaria. We are reporting a case of cerebral malaria that occurred in an epileptic patient whose seizures had been taken as a status epilepticus, the consequence of which was a delay diagnosis of malaria. The obje...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Behavioural Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2471-7975
DOI: 10.21767/2471-7975.100015