Twenty-seven venous cutdowns to treat pseudostatus epilepticus
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Pseudoseizures are often misdiagnosed. We report a patient with pseudostatus epilepticus who has had 27 venous cutdowns on different occasions when she was admitted to hospital with repeated seizures.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Seizure
دوره 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997