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Cephalic tetanus is the rarest form in which local tetanus can involve the cranial nerves.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Case<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Herein, we report a case of cephalic tetanus in a 16-month-old girl who had never been vaccinated. The patient, who had a complaint of a wound on the cheek mucosa for 2\u2009weeks, was seen playing with the soil in the garden 1\u2009week ago and was found to have abundant soil removed by her mother. The patient was diagnosed as cephalic tetanus according to her complaints and clinical findings.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We believe that, this is the first case reported in the literature of cephalic tetanus in such a young child wherein the disease focus of infection from a wound on the cheek mucosa. The symptom we defined as \u2018a child who cries when she smiles\u2019 presented in this case could only be associated with this disease.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In addition to detailed anamnesis and meticulous physical examination, the clinical symptoms that we have described for the first time in a child with cephalic tetanus should also be considered for early and accurate diagnosis.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/tropej\/fmaa004","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,9]],"date-time":"2020-01-09T20:09:28Z","timestamp":1578600568000},"page":"549-552","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Cephalic Tetanus: A Rare Case Report"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"66","author":[{"given":"Zafer","family":"Ba\u011fc\u0131","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Konya Education and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, 34668 Konya, Turkey"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"477","DOI":"10.1093\/bja\/87.3.477","article-title":"Tetanus: a review of the literature","volume":"87","author":"Cook","year":"2001","journal-title":"Br J Anesth"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B2","first-page":"1043","volume-title":"Infectious diseases and microbiology","author":"Top\u00e7u","year":"2002"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B3","volume-title":"Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett\u2019s principles and practice of infectious disease","author":"Mandell","year":"2005","edition":"6th edn."},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"139","DOI":"10.1615\/JLongTermEffMedImplants.v13.i3.20","article-title":"Management and prevention of tetanus","volume":"13","author":"Edlich","year":"2003","journal-title":"J Long Term Eff Med Implants"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B5","first-page":"780209","article-title":"Cephalic tetanus: a case report","volume":"2011","author":"Alhaji","year":"2011","journal-title":"Case Rep Infect Dis"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B6","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"613","DOI":"10.1097\/SMJ.0b013e318224006d","article-title":"Tetanus: a review","volume":"104","author":"Ataro","year":"2011","journal-title":"South Med J"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"32","DOI":"10.4314\/njo.v13i1.11965","article-title":"Cephalic tetanus: a case report of a rare complication of orbito-ocular injury in a Nigerian","volume":"13","author":"Ogun","year":"2005","journal-title":"Niger J Ophthalmol"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B8","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"67","DOI":"10.14219\/jada.archive.1992.0170","article-title":"Report of cases: reviewing cephalic tetanus","volume":"123","author":"Burgess","year":"1992","journal-title":"J Am Dent Assoc"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B9","first-page":"1247256","article-title":"A case of cephalic tetanus in an elderly patient with trismus","volume":"2018","author":"Bernardes","year":"2018","journal-title":"Case Rep Infect Dis"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"128","DOI":"10.1016\/0735-6757(88)90049-6","article-title":"Cephalic tetanus: a case report and review of the literature","volume":"6","author":"Jagoda","year":"1988","journal-title":"Am J Emerg Med"},{"key":"2020100403541345900_fmaa004-B11","first-page":"111","article-title":"Cephalic tetanus","volume":"74","author":"Abde","year":"1980","journal-title":"J Indian Med Assoc"}],"container-title":["Journal of Tropical Pediatrics"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"http:\/\/academic.oup.com\/tropej\/article-pdf\/66\/5\/549\/33834112\/fmaa004.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"syndication"},{"URL":"http:\/\/academic.oup.com\/tropej\/article-pdf\/66\/5\/549\/33834112\/fmaa004.pdf","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,4]],"date-time":"2020-10-04T07:54:41Z","timestamp":1601798081000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/tropej\/article\/66\/5\/549\/5729926"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,7]]},"references-count":11,"journal-issue":{"issue":"5","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,7]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,1]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/tropej\/fmaa004","relation":{},"ISSN":["1465-3664"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1465-3664","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published-other":{"date-parts":[[2020,10]]},"published":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,7]]}}}