title: A female adult with Sandifer's syndrome and hiatal hernia misdiagnosed as epilepsy with focal seizures.
abstract: Sandifer's syndrome is a rare, probably underdiagnosed, and usually pediatric movement disorder associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease. Often, it is misdiagnosed as epilepsy or paroxysmal dyskinesia. We report the case of an adult female with Sandifer's syndrome initially diagnosed as focal epilepsy and treated inefficiently with anticonvulsants for two years.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology and Epilepsy Center, University of Marburg, Germany. mareikenowak@web.de
authors.forename: Mareike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Strzelczyk
authors.forename: Wolfgang H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Oertel
authors.forename: Hajo M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Hamer
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rosenow
mesh_terms: D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005260:Female; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D012640:Seizures / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014103:Torticollis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014741:Video Recording; D055815:Young Adult