So-called generalized epilepsy in children leading to frontal epilepsy with a frontal syndrome in adulthood: a clinical, EEG and radiological study of 10 cases.
The authors report 10 cases of epileptic patients with the onset in childhood of the clinical and EEG features of cryptogenic generalized epilepsy which evolved into frontal epilepsy, confirmed by the clinical and EEG features and was associated with a frontal syndrome. CT-scan and MRI showed mild atrophy in the frontal area, while SPECT showed a decrease in the frontal blood flow in 70% of the cases. The authors consider that frontal epilepsy may mimic generalized epilepsy.
Giroud
M
M
Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Général, Dijon, France.
Fayolle
H
H
Gras
P
P
Vion
P
P
Baudoin
N
N
Brunotte
F
F
Dumas
R
R
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D001284:Atrophy; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004829:Epilepsy, Generalized / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004830:Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013577:Syndrome; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon