clinical features of benign rolandic epilepsy of childhood
Last edited 12/2020
Clinical features include:
- episodes usually related to sleep, either at night or during daytime nap,
and triggered by sleep deprivation
- onset marked by guttural sounds and salivary drooling, consciousness usually
preserved, and characteristic speech arrest
- focal seizures with numbness or tingling of the tongue, lips, and weakness
of one side of the face, sometimes ipsilateral arm jerking
- occasionally become secondarily generalized and focal onset may be missed
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- Professor Deb K Pal PhD MRCP
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