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[Focal epileptic seizures ipsilateral to the tumor: case report]
Sebastião Silva Gusmão1, Mirian Fabíola Studart Mendes, Roberto Leal Silveira
1Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. gusmao@medicina.ufmg.br
Arquivos De Neuro-Psiquiatria
|July 20, 2002
Abstract:
Focal somatosensory epileptic seizures ipsilateral to a brain tumor is reported and the literature reviewed. It is an exceptional occurrence, having been described only six cases, with several mechanisms being proposed. The proximity of the lesions with the low cerebral convexity (perisylvian) suggests the compromising of the secondary somatosensorial area, seeming to prove the experimental observation of somatosensorial crises originating in this area.