Eating epilepsy associated with a deep forebrain glioma.
Seizures associated with deglutition are rare, and previously reported cases of so-called eating epilepsy have not identified specific electrophysiological or anatomical foci. We evaluated a 14-year-old with a deep hemispheric astrocytoma in whom focal seizures were consistently triggered by eating. Electroencephalograms were consistent with a deeply located seizure focus. Eating epilepsy should be grouped with reflex epilepsies that may originate with the diencephalon.
D000293:Adolescent; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D004027:Diencephalon; D004435:Eating; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000209:etiology*; D005910:Glioma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male