A clinical study on frontal lobe epilepsy |
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Authors: | A Satomura T Ono S Kobayashi H Sue K Yagi M Seino |
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Affiliation: | National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Higashi Hospital. |
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Abstract: | Of 30 patients whose epileptogenic focus was presumed to be located in the frontal lobe on the basis of a clinico-electrographic correlation, the principal seizure manifestation consisted of peculiar automatisms in about 40% of the cases. However, the nature of the automatisms was of a short duration lasting about one minute but in most cases it was accompanied by extremely violent movements, but this was not true in all cases. Of the 30 cases, only 5 cases showed marked improvement one year after being discharged from the hospital so that this type of seizure event is extremely intractable. |
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