Late exacerbation of Rasmussen encephalitis with childhood onset
We describe the case of a 21 year old woman that presented for epilepsia partialis continua syndrome that she had been having in the last 8 months. Slight diminished speech fluency, cortical discriminative sensibility impairment and neuroradiological features of hemispheric atrophy pointed to the di...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Amaltea Medical Publishing House
2011-06-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of Neurology |
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| Online Access: | https://rjn.com.ro/articles/2011.2/RJN_2011_2_Art-07.pdf |
| Summary: | We describe the case of a 21 year old woman that presented for epilepsia partialis continua syndrome that she had been having in the last 8 months. Slight diminished speech fluency, cortical discriminative sensibility impairment and neuroradiological features of hemispheric atrophy pointed to the diagnosis of Rasmussen Encephalitis. We highlight an unusual prolonged interval between the first focal seizures and the onset of the suggesting clinical picture, that consisting an evidence for the clinical variability of this disease. |
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| ISSN: | 1843-8148 2069-6094 |