Language dysfunction after frontal lobe partial seizures.
Postictal language delay (PILD) patterns can lateralize temporal lobe complex partial seizures (CPS). The authors studied PILD in 24 patients with 118 frontal lobe CPS. Prolonged PILD occurred in only 7% of CPS confined to the dominant frontal lobe compared with 91% of CPS that started as frontal and spread to the dominant temporal lobe (p = 0.0001). Postictal language testing provides important information on frontal CPS localization and spread.
Goldberg-Stern
Hadassa
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Epilepsy Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel. sterngoldberg@bezeqint.net
Gadoth
Nathan
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Cahill
William
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Privitera
Michael
M
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