Calvarial thickening due to anticonvulsants other than phenytoin
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Calvarial thickening due to anticonvulsants other than phenytoin.
A 53-year-old Caucasian man with known frontal lobe epilepsy presented with a tonic–clonic seizure. The patient had been treated previously with multiple anti-epileptic drugs (sodium valproate, carbamazepine, clobazam). During his admission he suffered a further three seizures overnight and underwent a CT head scan to rule out a new symptomatic cause. The CT head (Figure 1) did not show any acu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1478-2715,2042-8189
DOI: 10.4997/jrcpe.2017.412