A clinical study on frontal lobe epilepsy.
Of 30 patients whose epileptogenic focus was presumed to be located in the frontal lobe on the basis of a clinico-electrographic correlation, the principal seizure manifestation consisted of peculiar automatisms in about 40% of the cases. However, the nature of the automatisms was of a short duration lasting about one minute but in most cases it was accompanied by extremely violent movements, but this was not true in all cases. Of the 30 cases, only 5 cases showed marked improvement one year after being discharged from the hospital so that this type of seizure event is extremely intractable.
Satomura
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National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Higashi Hospital.
Ono
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Kobayashi
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Sue
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Yagi
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Seino
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior / Q000502:physiology