title: Bilateral focal motor status epilepticus with retained consciousness after stroke.
abstract: Bilateral motor seizures with retained consciousness are rare and often mistaken for pseudoseizures. In the few reported cases, the seizures were brief and the underlying lesion usually was a tumor. Here the authors describe a patient with bilateral focal motor status epilepticus with retained consciousness after a stroke. A seizure should be considered as the possible cause of continuous bilateral limb movements with retained consciousness.
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ashkenazi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ben-Hur
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D013226:Status Epilepticus / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed