Absence status manifested by compulsive masturbation.
Absence status manifested by compulsive masturbation occurred in a 41-year-old man with generalized epilepsy. Ictal simple and complex sexual manifestations during partial seizures in focal epilepsy are rare, but, to our knowledge, our report of this sexual automatism during absence status in generalized epilepsy is unique.
D000293:Adolescent; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008418:Masturbation / Q000150:complications*