Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
Case Report

Abdominal epilepsy mimicking conversion disorder: a case report

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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Abant Izzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey

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Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Acıbadem University, Istanbul, Turkey

Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology 2019; 29: 484-486
DOI: 10.1080/24750573.2018.1430714
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In children and adolescents, especially younger ones, recurrent abdominal pains may develop as a response to psychosocial stressors. They may be considered as functional and be one of the common reasons for clinical referrals. A rare cause of recurrent, organic abdominal pain is abdominal epilepsy. Abdominal epilepsy may be considered in differential diagnosis of patients that were thought to have functional complaints. In this case, a 16-year-old adolescent girl whose chief complaints included loss of consciousness and recurrent abdominal pains lasting for a year is presented.

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