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Landau-Kleffner syndrome: a case report
1Department of Neurology, G.B. Pant Hospital, Agartala, Tripura, India.
Neurology India
|July 23, 2002
Abstract:
A healthy 5 year old boy developed aphasia, attention disorder and hyperkinesia preceded by transient formed visual hallucinations and emotional outburst, immediately after a stressful event of forced separation from his father. EEG showed generalized epileptiform activity. He was diagnosed as Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS). CT and MRI of the brain were normal. SPECT showed left mesial temporal hypoperfusion. He improved on antiepileptics and ACTH.