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.
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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