Speech arrest and supplementary motor area seizures.
A right-handed man had recurrent episodes of speech arrest that were focal epileptic seizures. A metastatic adenocarcinoma was identified and removed from the left supplementary motor area. The similarity of these rare seizures to transient ischemic attacks may lead to an erroneous and hazardous misdiagnosis.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications; D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009044:Motor Cortex; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*