Supplementary motor area seizures presenting as stumbling episodes

Seizure. 1995 Sep;4(3):241-4. doi: 10.1016/s1059-1311(05)80068-8.

Abstract

A healthy young boy presented with brief stumbling episodes of recent onset. Evaluation with prolonged EEG-video monitoring led to the diagnosis of supplementary motor area epilepsy. Focal seizures arising from the medial fronto-parietal cortex may present unusual diagnostic pitfalls in their clinical semeiology as well as their EEG characteristics.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain Mapping
  • Child
  • Dominance, Cerebral / physiology
  • Electroencephalography*
  • Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / diagnosis
  • Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Monitoring, Physiologic
  • Motor Cortex / physiopathology*
  • Psychomotor Disorders / diagnosis
  • Psychomotor Disorders / physiopathology*
  • Seizures / diagnosis
  • Seizures / physiopathology*