Seizures in a patient with diffuse scleroderma.
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Seizures in a patient with diffuse scleroderma.
Accepted 19 April 1995 A 31-year-old black woman, with a nine-year history of systemic sclerosis, was admitted with an episode of jerking movements of both upper extremities, followed by unresponsiveness. In the emergency room, she had an episode of generalised tonic-clonic seizures. Her husband stated that she had never had seizures prior to these two episodes and had no headaches, nausea, vom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.71.841.687