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A Adeloye

Publications and source records attributed to A Adeloye.

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PubMed1971

Epilepsy after missile wounds of the head.

Two hundred and thirty-seven Nigerians with missile head injury were treated at the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, between July 1964 and January 1970. Among the 165 of these patients who have been followed up for over a year, the incidence of epilepsy has been 11·4%, 18·75%, and 33·3% in a follow-up period ranging between one to two years, two to three years, and three to five years respectively.Wounds in the parietal region, especially those at the vertex, were followed by epilepsy more frequently than injuries elsewhere on the head. Of these wounds, tangential skull injuries and through-and-through brain injuries were more epileptogenic than others.Fits which occurred within a fortnight of wounding have been designated as `early' fits, and they appeared to differ in their aetiology from `late' fits.

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PubMed1971

A syndrome characteristic of tangential bullet wounds of the vertex of the skull.

Six patients with tangential missile wounds of the vertex of the skull presented symptoms of limb paresis which were more marked proximally in the arms and distally in the legs where there was also sensory loss of a cortical type. Carotid cerebral angiography and operative treatment showed patency of the longitudinal sinus and injury to the medial aspects of the frontoparietal cortex. The term "longitudinal sinus syndrome" formerly applied to these cases is therefore a misnomer since the main underlying cause is cortical injury and not thrombotic occlusion of the superior longitudinal sinus, as previously suspected.

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PubMed1971

Stevens-Johnson syndrome following anticonvulsant therapy in penetrating head injury.

Five cases of Stevens-Johnson syndrome are described in patients with penetrating head wounds who were treated with Penicillin, streptomycin, sulphadiazine and the anticonvulsant drugs, epanutin and phenobarbitone. One patient who continued to have only his anticonvulsants after the appearance of his skin eruption, died. In two other cases, epanutin and phenobarbiton each was responsible for the Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

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