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Ictal deafness in drug-resistant MRI-negative epilepsy Volume 21, numéro 2, April 2019

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1 Department of Neurosurgery,
2 Department of Pediatric Neurology, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan
* Correspondence: Masaki Iwasaki Department of Neurosurgery, National Center Hospital, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawahigashi-cho, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8551, Japan

Ictal clinical semiology indicates where the patient's seizure arises from and how it progresses. A patient's description of a focal sensory seizure may support a surgical decision even when MRI and PET abnormalities are absent. Ictal deafness is a focal auditory seizure characterized by suppression of hearing, presumably originating from the auditory cortex in the temporal lobe. However, the precise localization has not been confirmed with surgical cases. We present a case in which the region from where ictal deafness arose was confirmed by intracranial electroencephalography, with successful epilepsy surgery and review other published cases.