CASE REPORT
Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis
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Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Diyarbakır, Turkey
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Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey
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Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey
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Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Online publication date: 2004-04-15
Publication date: 2004-04-15
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Mustafa Aldemir
Dicle Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi
İlk ve Acil Yardım AD.
21280, Diyarbakır, Turkey.
Tel: +90 412 248 8155.
Fax: +90 412 248 8440.
Eur J Gen Med 2004;1(2):48-51
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ABSTRACT
Tuberous sclerosis complex is a neurocutaneous and autosomal dominant disease
characterized by multiple hamartomas in multiple viscera. It results from spontaneous
mutation. The genetic anomaly is usually linked to the 9th chromosome. It may be accompanied
by early childhood seizures, multiple brain tumors, skin lesions, angiomyolipomas in
the kidneys and liver and rhabdomyomas. A careful physical examination, computerized
tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain are essential in
its diagnosis. In this study, we presented a 16 year old girl who was brought to our emergency
service room due to acute loss of conscious and then underwent to ventriculo-peritoneal
(V-P) shunt procedure after she had been diagnosed as acute hydrocephalus. The patient had been
operated for intracranial mass when she was 2 years old and postoperative pathological diagnosis
was established to be subepandimal giant cell astrocytoma (SGCA).