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Can protrusion of the tongue stop seizures in Rolandic Epilepsy? Volume 1, numéro 4, Décembre 1999

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Divisione di Neuropsichiatria Infantile, Fondazione “Istituto Neurologico, Casimiro Mondino”, V. Palestro 3, 27100 Pavia, Italy
  • Page(s) : 217-20
  • Année de parution : 2000

Introduction Benign partial epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (BECT) is one of the most common forms of epilepsy in childhood [1]. The frequency of seizures is generally low and the interictal EEG pattern is well defined. There are few descriptions of the ictal discharge in the literature [2]. Colamaria et al. [3] in 1991, described a case of BECT where protrusion of the tongue and voluntary movements of the buccal area induced [...]