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Painful seizures with allodynia in an 11-year-old boy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Laurence Kocher ,
Loïc Rambaud ,
Christophe Rousselle ,
Carmine Mottolese ,
Philippe Ryvlin  and
Pierre-Marie Gonnaud
Laurence Kocher
Affiliation:
Department of Functional Neurology, Hôpital Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France.
Loïc Rambaud
Affiliation:
Department of Functional Neurology, Hôpital Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France.
Christophe Rousselle
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Hôpital Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France.
Carmine Mottolese
Affiliation:
Department of Neurosurgery B, Hôpital Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, France.
Philippe Ryvlin
Affiliation:
Department of Functional Neurology, Hôpital Pierre Wertheimer, Bron, France.
Pierre-Marie Gonnaud
Affiliation:
Department of Functional Neurology, Hôpital Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France.
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Abstract

An 11-year-old boy's epileptic seizures started with a feeling of impending crisis, dizziness, headache, and a bad taste in the mouth. This was followed by swallowing and a burning sensation in the left hand. At the same time, other parts of the body experienced allodynia. MRI and CT scans showed a right anteromesial temporal lesion which proved at neuropathology to be a ganglioglioma. Lesionectomy resulted in complete cessation of seizures. Seizures were absent at an 18-month follow-up. Allodynia is discussed in relation to the locality of the lesion.

Type
Case Reports
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Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology , Volume 41 , Issue 10 , October 1999 , pp. 704 - 707
Copyright
© 1999 Mac Keith Press

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