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Video-EEG and ictal SPECT in three patients with both epileptic and non-epileptic seizures Volume 1, numéro 1, Mars 1999

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Service de neurologie, CHR Pontchaillou, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, Rennes, France
  • Page(s) : 51-5
  • Année de parution : 1999

Up to 20% of patients referred to epilepsy centers have pseudoseizures [1]. While a majority of patients have pseudoseizures only, a subgroup of patients appear to have both epileptic and psychogenic seizures [2]. Ictal single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) has been used as a localizing tool in focal epilepsies, but some have questioned whether activation effects might be produced during pseudoseizures, due to limb movements [...]