Short report
Concordance of primary generalised epilepsy and carbamazepine
hypersensitivity in monozygotic twins
S G M Edwardsa, V Hubbarda, S Aylettb, D Wrenc
a Department of
Clinical Neurology, St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington,
London W2 1NY, UK, b Neurosciences Department, Great Ormond Street
for Children NHS Trust and the Institute of Child Health (UCL London),
UK, c Department of Clinical
Neurology, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Copse Hill London, UK
Accepted 17 May
1999
In this paper we describe the previously unreported phenomenon
of a carbamazepine-induced mucocutaneous syndrome in identical twins.
These twins had developed primary generalised epilepsy within 2 months
of each other.
Keywords: carbamazepine; hypersensitivity; twins; epilepsy
© 1999 by The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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