Significant findings on cranial CT scan after a first unprovoked seizure in children from North India.
Neuroimaging after a first unprovoked seizure may show significant abnormalities. In our study, 32% of all children with a first apparent unprovoked seizure had an abnormal CT scan result. Most of these were ring-enhancing lesions of cysticercal or tubercular origin.
Mathur
Shipra
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Alder Hey Hospital, Royal Liverpool Childrens Hospital NHS Trust, Eaton Road, Liverpool, L12 2AP, UK. shipramathurl@yahoo.co.in
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Kevin
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Sharma
Meenakshi
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D000293:Adolescent; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed