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Kamran Tabaddor, MD; Saul Balagura, MD, PhD

Arch Neurol. 1981;38(3):198-199.

Abstract
• In cases of acute cranial epidural hematoma following trauma incurred during a major motor seizure, the symptoms and signs of the hematoma can be erroneously attributed to the postictal state. Since delay in diagnosis commonly leads to a poor or fatal outcome, an expanding mass should be suspected when status epilepticus, focal seizures, or postictal neurological deficits appear in an epileptic who has not previously had these symptoms.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Neurological Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 15, 1980.

Reprint requests to Department of Neurological Surgery, Bronx Municipal Hospital Center, Palham Parkway and Eastchester Road, Bronx, NY 10461 (Dr Tabaddor).

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