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- The placement of sewing needles in the brain through the anterior fontanel is an unusual occurrence, with limited cases documented in medical literature.
- Many individuals affected by this condition are asymptomatic, although a subset has experienced seizures.
- This report details a case involving a 14-year-old boy who suffered from generalized tonic-clonic seizures caused by a sewing needle lodged in his frontal lobe.
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Placing of sewing needles in the brain through the anterior fontanel is a rare entity. There are very few cases reported in literature. Most of them were asymptomatic, but some of them presented with seizure. We report here a 14-year-old boy, who was admitted to the Pediatric Neurology Department with a history of generalized tonic-clonic seizures due to sewing needle located in the frontal lobe.
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