Transient oromotor deficits in children with benign childhood epilepsy with central temporal spikes.
OBJECTIVE
To describe transient oromotor deficits in benign childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (BCECTS), an idiopathic age-specific epileptic syndrome with a benign course.


METHODS
Five children with BCECTS and intermittent dysarthria and drooling not in the context of typical clinical seizures are presented.


RESULTS
The periods of oromotor deficits correlated with increased seizure frequency in all children. Concomitant EEGs that were recorded during periods of dysarthria in four of the children revealed focal electrographic seizures. The reported children did not differ from other patients with BCECTS in any other respect.


CONCLUSIONS
Transient oromotor dysfunction is a rare ictal phenomenon that occurs in children with BCECTS with no other unique clinical features.
Kramer
U
U
Child Developmental Center & Pediatric Neurology Unit, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel. umkramer@netvision.net.il
Ben-Zeev
B
B
Harel
S
S
Kivity
S
S
D000293:Adolescent; D017668:Age of Onset; D002648:Child; D015897:Comorbidity; D004401:Dysarthria / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019305:Epilepsy, Rolandic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011379:Prognosis; D012798:Sialorrhea / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology