title: Can absence status epilepticus be of frontal lobe origin?
abstract: Five women with an unclassifiable nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) characterized by young age at onset, prolonged confusions, focal motor seizures, and both generalized spike-and-wave discharges and focal epileptic discharges on the EEG were studied with video-EEG monitoring. Electrographically, the NCSE originated from the left frontal lobe in 4 patients, and the left hemisphere with multifocal seizure discharges in 1 patient. Focal motor seizures seemed to originate from the left hemisphere in all 5 patients, particularly from its anterior part in 3 of them. Results show that the NCSE is complex partial status epilepticus of frontal lobe origin electroclinically mimicking absence status epilepticus once it reaches a full-blown phase.
authors: National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Higashi Hospital, Japan.
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Kudo
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Sato
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Yagi
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Seino
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004832:Epilepsy, Absence / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged