Assessment of patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) need to be differentiated from epileptic seizures as the management varies for both. Presence of tongue biting, falling and urinary incontinence favors a diagnosis of epileptic seizures. We report two children with features suggestive of epileptic seizures that were eventually diagnosed as PNES with the help of video-EEG monitoring.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.033753