Episodic vomiting and headache in children: consider occipital epilepsy

Episodic vomiting and headache in children: consider occipital epilepsy

Children with occipital seizures often have ictal autonomic symptoms such as pallor and vomiting and lack motor manifestations. This has lead to misdiagnosis of occipital seizures in children. The following case report highlights the clinical features of a child with occipital epilepsy misdiagnosed...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of paediatrics and child health 2010-04, Vol.46 (4), p.204-206
Hauptverfasser: Lope, Raja Juanita Raja, Wong, Sau Wei, Wu, Loo Ling
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Child
Children & youth
Convulsions & seizures
Diagnosis, Differential
Epilepsies, Partial - complications
Epilepsies, Partial - diagnosis
Epilepsies, Partial - drug therapy
Epilepsy
Female
headache
Headache - diagnosis
Headache - etiology
heterotopia
Humans
Medical diagnosis
occipital lobe epilepsy
vomiting
Vomiting - diagnosis
Vomiting - etiology
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Zusammenfassung:Children with occipital seizures often have ictal autonomic symptoms such as pallor and vomiting and lack motor manifestations. This has lead to misdiagnosis of occipital seizures in children. The following case report highlights the clinical features of a child with occipital epilepsy misdiagnosed as having migraine. The aetiology of symptomatic occipital epilepsy will be discussed.
ISSN:1034-4810
1440-1754
DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1754.2009.01662.x