Epileptic Disorders
MENULingual myoclonus associated with brain tumour: an epileptic origin? Volume 12, issue 4, December 2010
Authors
Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ankara, Turkey
- Key words: myoclonus, lingual, epileptic, brain tumour, epilepsia partialis continua
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2010.0333
- Page(s) : 303-5
- Published in: 2010
We describe a 59-year-old man, suffering from a left-sided weakness, who was diagnosed with a right frontal oligodendroglioma. One month after a craniotomy, he complained of perioral numbness and slurred speech, which lasted about an hour. Neurological examination discovered dysarthric speech and repetitive, rhythmic myoclonic jerks of the tongue and the lower lip. We suggest this lingual myoclonus was an epileptic phenomenon associated with brain tumour. [Published with video sequences]