title: Lateralizing value of Todd's palsy in patients with epilepsy.
abstract: The authors retrospectively investigated the value of Todd's palsy (TP) in lateralizing the hemisphere of seizure onset in patients admitted for video-EEG monitoring in a tertiary epilepsy center. In 29 patients, a postictal hemiparesis was observed. TP always occurred contralateral to the epileptogenic hemisphere in 27 patients (93%). In the remaining two patients, the seizure onset could not be lateralized. In some patients, TP occurred after a seizure without focal motor features or secondary generalization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA. kelling@uni-muenster.de
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kellinghaus
authors.forename: Prakash
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kotagal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000150:complications; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014741:Video Recording