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Infantile Masturbation and Paroxysmal Disorders

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Journal Indian J Pediatr
Specialty Pediatrics
Date 2008 Mar 13
PMID 18334803
Citations 4
Authors
Mohammadreza Salehi Omran
Mohammad Ghofrani
Ali Ghabeli Juibary
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Abstract

A recurrent paroxysmal presentation in children leads to different diagnoses and among them are neurologic and cardiac etiologies. Infantile masturbation is not a well known entity and cannot be differentiated easily from other disorders. Aim of this study is to elucidate and differentiate this condition from epileptic seizures. We report 3 cases of 10 to 30 mth old girls of infantile masturbation that their symptoms initiated at 2, 3 and 8 mth of age. These present with contraction and extension of lower extremities, scissoring of legs, perspiration, changing face color. In 2 cases body rocking and legs rubbing initiated then there after. Masturbation is one of the paroxysmal non-epileptic conditions of early infancy and is in differential diagnosis of epileptic seizures.

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