title: Painful auras in focal epilepsy.
abstract: The authors studied the localizing or lateralizing value of painful epileptic auras in 25 patients with focal epilepsy. Painful auras were seen in 4.1% patients with focal epilepsy arising from temporal, frontal, perirolandic, or parieto-occipital regions. Abdominal pain was present in 5% of all abdominal auras in temporal lobe epilepsy and 50% of all abdominal auras in frontal lobe epilepsy. In perirolandic epilepsy, painful somatosensory auras were lateralized contralateral to the epileptic hemisphere but not consistently in temporal lobe epilepsy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195-5245, USA. naird@ccf.org
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Nair
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Najm
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bulacio
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lüders
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013003:Somatosensory Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology; D020886:Somatosensory Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology