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To the Editor: A 73-year-old man, visiting the United States from Nepal, presented to our institution with multiple tonic–clonic seizures. In order to control the seizures, the patient was intubated, admitted to our intensive care unit, and treated with intravenous benzodiazepines and anticonvulsant drugs. Computed tomography (CT) of the head showed a 1-cm enhancing lesion with surrounding vasogenic edema in the left frontal lobe and a focus of increased attenuation within the lesion suggestive of petechial hemorrhage or calcification. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain confirmed these findings and was diagnostic of a neoplastic lesion. A neurosurgical consultation was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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