Twenty-seven venous cutdowns to treat pseudostatus epilepticus
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1997
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Elsevier-W.B. Saunders
Abstract
Pseudoseizures are often misdiagnosed. We report a patient with pseudostatusepilepticus who has had 27 venous cutdowns on different occasions when she wasadmitted to hospital with repeated seizures
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Conversion Disorder, Conversion Disorder-therapy, Hysteria Hysteria-therapy, Psychophysiologic Disorders, Psychophysiologic Disorders-therapy, Status Epilepticus, Status Epilepticus-therapy, Suicide-psychology, Venous Cutdown-psychology
Citation
Seizure. 1997; 6(1): pp.71-72