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Intermittent photic stimulation-provoked seizure associated with ictal asystole Volume 21, numéro 5, October 2019

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  • Intermittent photic stimulation-provoked seizure associated with ictal asystole
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Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China
* Correspondence: Yonghong Liu Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Unit, Department of Neurology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China

A 19-year-old female presented with an eight-year history of epilepsy. The seizures were very infrequent, with a yearly frequency. The seizure presented as cephalic aura at onset, followed by rotation of the whole body with eye and head left deviation, associated with loss of awareness, and then left-sided dystonia that rapidly progressed to a bilateral tonic-clonic seizure. Brain MRI was normal. EEG monitoring revealed an interictal epileptic discharge mainly located in the occipital region, which [...]