Pain as a manifestation of seizure disorder.
Seizures can manifest in a variety of different clinical presentations. These include motor signs and symptoms, somatosensory and special sensory, psychic and autonomic signs and symptoms, and loss of impairment of consciousness. However, pain is a very uncommon clinical manifestation of a seizure. We describe a case where paroxysmal, acute-onset, right-sided arm-hand and facial pain was the initial and prominent manifestation of the seizure and was accompanied by interictal and ictal electrographic changes.
Clinical Neurophysiology Lab, University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics, Columbia 65212.
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D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology