Aggravation of symptomatic occipital epilepsy of childhood by carbamazepine
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Aggravation of symptomatic occipital epilepsy of childhood by carbamazepine.
INTRODUCTION Carbamazepine can lead to aggravation of epileptic seizures in generalized epilepsies (primary or secondary) with clinical manifestations of absence (typical or atypical) and/or myoclonic seizures. However, some focal epilepsies can be also aggravated by the introduction of carbamazepine. CASE REPORT We presented a 10-year-old boy born after a complicated and prolonged delivery c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Journal of Serbia
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0042-8450,2406-0720
DOI: 10.2298/vsp1404404s