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R Mai1, I Sartori, S Francione
1C. Munari Epilepsy Surgery Centre, Niguarda Hospital, Piazza Ospedale Maggiore 3, I-20163 Milan, Italy. roberto.mai@ospedaleniguarda.it
Abstract:
Hyperkinetic seizures are considered a typical manifestation of nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy (NFLE). Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy with mainly sleep-related seizures have been described; however they commonly lack hyperkinetic activity and seizure frequency is low. We retrospectively analysed our population of 442 consecutive patients surgically treated between January 1996 and January 2004. Among these there were 25 patients with sleep-related hyperkinetic epileptic seizures, with a frontal lobe onset in 18 cases and a temporal lobe onset in 7. Patients with sleep-related hyperkinetic seizures with temporal lobe origin had anamnestic and clinical features strikingly similar to those with a frontal onset, with agitated movements, high seizure frequency and no history of febrile convulsions. We confirm our previous findings that this kind of epileptic manifestation is not only peculiar to frontal lobe epilepsy.
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