Sensory Jacksonian seizures triggered by a frontally-located meningioma.
A patient who presented with sensory Jacksonian seizures and no other clinical symptoms was found to have a meningioma in the premotor area of the frontal lobe. The possibility that brain oedema caused by the tumour encroached on the supplementary motor area and triggered the seizures via cortico-cortical pathways is discussed.
D000368:Aged; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology