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Peri-oral myoclonia with absences with multiple facial and upper body myoclonia: Overlap epilepsy syndrome

Abstract

A 17-years old girl presented with an 8-year history of absences with peri-oral twitching, eyelid twitching and head nodding, with poor response to anti-epileptic drugs. Video EEG revealed ictal and inter-ictal generalized spike wave discharges, and absences with peri-oral (predominant), eyelid, neck and shoulder myoclonia. There was also prominent eye closure sensitivity. Conundrums regarding epilepsy syndrome classification and …

Authors

Gulati P; Jain P; Qashqari H; Bradbury L; Cooper P; Otsubo H; Whitney R

Journal

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, Vol. 54, , pp. 135–137

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

August 2018

DOI

10.1016/j.jocn.2018.06.008

ISSN

0967-5868