[Acute anterior bi-opercular syndrome of critical origin in epilepsy with rolandic spikes]

Rev Neurol (Paris). 1992;148(11):712-5.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report the fifth case of a palsy of the lips, the tongue and the pharynx corresponding to an acute pseudo-bulbar syndrome causing speech arrest, and hyper-sialorrhea. The clinical examination and the electroencephalograms showed a partial motor status with spikes discharges in the two central regions, in a 10-year old boy known to have epilepsy with rolandic spikes. The status epilepticus ceased with phenytoin therapy. Although epilepsy with rolandic spikes is a benign one without any cerebral lesion, a partial motor status epilepticus is possible and does not change prognosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Brain Diseases / complications
  • Brain Diseases / diagnosis
  • Child
  • Electroencephalography
  • Epilepsy, Complex Partial / complications*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Paralysis / etiology*
  • Periodicity
  • Sialorrhea / etiology*
  • Speech Disorders / etiology*
  • Syndrome