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Absence status epilepticus with computed tomographic brain changes following metrizamide myelography
Author(s) -
Obeid Tahir,
Yaqub Basim,
Panayiotopoulos Chrysostomos,
AlJasser Saleh,
Shabaan Azzam,
Hawass Nour ElDin
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410240418
Subject(s) - metrizamide , status epilepticus , myelography , medicine , computed tomographic , radiology , nuclear medicine , computed tomography , epilepsy , spinal cord , psychiatry
Absence status epilepticus following metrizamide myelography was associated with computed tomographic scan evidence of a high concentration of the dye in brain gray matter. We suggest that absence status epilepticus is due to the direct effect of metrizamide on the cortex and that this clinically treatable condition may have escaped diagnosis in previous reports.