Dancing with a seizure, a case report
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Published on: December 9, 2014
Keun Tae Kim1, Kon Chu1, Sang Kun Lee2
1Department of Neurology, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Seoul National University Hospital, 101 Daehangno, Jongno-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Background:
Dancing is a very rare seizure semiology, and has only few case reports so far. Moreover, no case regarded as dancing with both description and video was presented.
Case Presentation:
A 42-year-old woman with medical intractable epilepsy showed a typical semiology of right temporal lobe epilepsy: right hand automatism and ictal speech. The following semiology, appeared during ictal and post-ictal stage, was complex, rhythmical and sequential movement. It was enough to be called dancing.
Conclusions:
We hereby report the most plausible dancing in the ictal and post-ictal state, documented by simultaneous video and electroencephalography.
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