title: Acute epidural hematoma following epileptic seizures.
abstract: In cases of acute cranial epidural hematoma following trauma incurred during a major motor seizure, the symptoms and signs of the hematoma can be erroneously attributed to the postictal state. Since delay in diagnosis commonly leads to a poor or fatal outcome, an expanding mass should be suspected when status epilepticus, focal seizures, or postictal neurological deficits appear in an epileptic who has not previously had these symptoms.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications*; D006407:Hematoma, Epidural, Cranial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography