A hypermotor seizure with a focal orbital frontal lesion originating in the insula: A case report

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 211-214

  Zhang, Hua ^a   Yao, Qinghe ^a   Zhao, Xin ^a   Jin, Xiaorong ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Guo, Heng ^a   You, Yu ^a   Wang, Haiwei ^a   Gao, Guodong ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Frontal lobe epilepsy; Hypermotor seizure; Insular epilepsy

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PHENYTOIN; VALPROIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL LOBE; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPERMOTOR SEIZURE; INSULA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; EPILEPSY, PARTIAL, MOTOR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 56449124412     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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