Volume 2, Issue 7 (Summer 1999)
J Arak Uni Med Sci 1999, 2(7): 7-9 |
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School of Medicine, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
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In this report we present a care of cephalic tetanus in a 57-year old man whose onset was accompanied by right facial palsy following injuries to the face. Three days before the appearance of facial palsy, the patient have had a wound on his forhead on the same side and seven days after the injury the parient showed trismus lock jow dysonea dysphagia hoarsness and progressing generalized seizure without disturbance of consciousness as are typical in tetanus. There were no remarkable finding on brain CT or Laboratory data. He was managed as a case of tetanus in I.C.U. The patient was completely cured and he discharged on the 35th day after the onset of right facial palsy.
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