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Published on: December 18, 2016
Lateralizing value of Todd's palsy in patients with epilepsy
Christoph Kellinghaus1, Prakash Kotagal
1Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA. kelling@uni-muenster.de
Abstract:
The authors retrospectively investigated the value of Todd's palsy (TP) in lateralizing the hemisphere of seizure onset in patients admitted for video-EEG monitoring in a tertiary epilepsy center. In 29 patients, a postictal hemiparesis was observed. TP always occurred contralateral to the epileptogenic hemisphere in 27 patients (93%). In the remaining two patients, the seizure onset could not be lateralized. In some patients, TP occurred after a seizure without focal motor features or secondary generalization.
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