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Electromagnetic Source Imaging in Presurgical Evaluation of Children with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
Published on: September 20, 2024
Ictal kissing and religious speech in a patient with right temporal lobe epilepsy
Ciğdem Ozkara1, Hüseyin Sarý, Lütfü Hanoğlu
1Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Turkey. cigdemoz@istanbul.edu.tr
Abstract:
We report the case of a 25-year-old female patient with intractable complex partial seizures characterized by repetition of certain religious statements and a rather compulsive kissing behavior. Presurgical evaluation revealed a right-sided, mesial temporal focus and hippocampal sclerosis on MRI. After selective amygdalohippocampectomy, she has only occasional auras. Her rare and peculiar ictal manifestations are discussed in the context of semiology and pathogenesis. [Published with videosequences].
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