Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society

The Korean Neurosurgical Society (대한신경외과학회)
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Late Onset Postpartum Seizure and Magnetic Resonance Image Findings

  • Hwang, Sung-Nam (Department of Neurosurgery, Chung-Ang University Hospital) ;
  • Park, Jae-Sung (Department of Neurosurgery, Chung-Ang University Hospital) ;
  • Park, Seung-Won (Department of Neurosurgery, Chung-Ang University Hospital)
  • Published : 2005.06.28
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Abstract

Two young women were brought to the Emergency room with generalized tonic and clonic seizures. Seizure developed seven and ten days after delivery respectively without the clinical signs of pre-eclampsia throughout the pregnancies. Magnetic resonance(MR) image of the brain showed characteristically symmetrical abnormal signals in the parietal and occipital regions. After several days of medical treatment, they were discharged without neurologic sequelae and follow-up MR images taken three months after discharge showed complete disappearance of the previous abnormal signals.

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