Painful seizures with allodynia in an 11-year-old boy.
An 11-year-old boy's epileptic seizures started with a feeling of impending crisis, dizziness, headache, and a bad taste in the mouth. This was followed by swallowing and a burning sensation in the left hand. At the same time, other parts of the body experienced allodynia. MRI and CT scans showed a right anteromesial temporal lesion which proved at neuropathology to be a ganglioglioma. Lesionectomy resulted in complete cessation of seizures. Seizures were absent at an 18-month follow-up. Allodynia is discussed in relation to the locality of the lesion.
Kocher
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Department of Functional Neurology, Hôpital Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France.
Rambaud
L
L
Rousselle
C
C
Mottolese
C
C
Ryvlin
P
P
Gonnaud
P M
PM
D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006225:Hand; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D012640:Seizures / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed