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Abstract
Recurrent seizures causally related to CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA. Seizure onset may be immediate but is typically delayed for several days after the injury and may not occur for up to two years. The majority of seizures have a focal onset that correlates clinically with the site of brain injury. Cerebral cortex injuries caused by a penetrating foreign object (CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA, PENETRATING) are more likely than closed head injuries (HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED) to be associated with epilepsy. Concussive convulsions are nonepileptic phenomena that occur immediately after head injury and are characterized by tonic and clonic movements. (From Rev Neurol 1998 Feb;26(150):256-261; Sports Med 1998 Feb;25(2):131-6)
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- Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic
- Epilepsy, Traumatic
- Post-Traumatic Seizure Disorder
- Seizure Disorder, Post-Traumatic
- Disorder, Post-Traumatic Seizure
- Disorders, Post-Traumatic Seizure
- Epilepsies, Post-Traumatic
- Epilepsies, Traumatic
- Epilepsy, Post Traumatic
- Post Traumatic Seizure Disorder
- Post-Traumatic Epilepsies
- Post-Traumatic Seizure Disorders
- Seizure Disorder, Post Traumatic
- Seizure Disorders, Post-Traumatic
- Traumatic Epilepsies
- Traumatic Epilepsy
- Concussive Convulsion
- Early Post-Traumatic Seizures
- Impact Seizure
- Late Post-Traumatic Seizures
- Concussive Convulsions
- Convulsion, Concussive
- Convulsions, Concussive
- Early Post Traumatic Seizures
- Early Post-Traumatic Seizure
- Impact Seizures
- Late Post Traumatic Seizures
- Late Post-Traumatic Seizure
- Post-Traumatic Seizure, Early
- Post-Traumatic Seizure, Late
- Post-Traumatic Seizures, Early
- Post-Traumatic Seizures, Late
- Seizure, Early Post-Traumatic
- Seizure, Late Post-Traumatic
- Seizures, Early Post-Traumatic
- Seizures, Late Post-Traumatic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coord IM with specific type of epilepsy (IM or NIM)
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1992; was EPILEPSY, TRAUMATIC 1963-1991
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- National Library of Medicine. Post-Traumatic Epilepsy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004834. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004834
- Post-Traumatic Epilepsy. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-traumatic_epilepsy
- Post-Traumatic Epilepsy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7233592