Seizure in benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes.
Rolandic epilepsy is frequent in children but seizures are rarely seen by the physician or captured by video-EEG monitoring. In most children the attacks are few and sporadic and generally occur at night. Also, a high percentage of children with benign epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BECTS) have characteristic centro-temporal spikes based on routine EEG monitoring and therefore do not require further tests such as telemetry or sleep studies. We report a video-EEG recording of a seizure in a patient with rolandic epilepsy which may be useful for educational purposes.
East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Hertford County Hospital, Hertford, UK. gkanabar@nhs.net
Gorande
G
Kanabar
Maggie
M
Sully
Katy
K
Walsh
Kavita
K
Chawla
D000293:Adolescent; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods; D019305:Epilepsy, Rolandic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014741:Video Recording / Q000379:methods