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Focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: A case report

Plenty of etiologies are reported to cause tongue tremor. Focal epilepsy presenting as isolated tongue tremor is a rare condition, suggesting how variable the focal seizure presentation may be. This paper reports a case of focal epilepsy due to presence of a cavernous angioma in the region of cortic...

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Autores principales: Salari, Mehri, Rezaei, Kamran, Mirdehghan, Alimohammad, Behzadi, Arya, Etemadifar, Masoud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8864572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35228883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5478
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author Salari, Mehri
Rezaei, Kamran
Mirdehghan, Alimohammad
Behzadi, Arya
Etemadifar, Masoud
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description Plenty of etiologies are reported to cause tongue tremor. Focal epilepsy presenting as isolated tongue tremor is a rare condition, suggesting how variable the focal seizure presentation may be. This paper reports a case of focal epilepsy due to presence of a cavernous angioma in the region of cortical motor area related to tongue movements. It is an clinical example of pathological conditions affecting the tongue area in motor homunculus.
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spelling pubmed-88645722022-02-27 Focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: A case report Salari, Mehri Rezaei, Kamran Mirdehghan, Alimohammad Behzadi, Arya Etemadifar, Masoud Clin Case Rep Case Reports Plenty of etiologies are reported to cause tongue tremor. Focal epilepsy presenting as isolated tongue tremor is a rare condition, suggesting how variable the focal seizure presentation may be. This paper reports a case of focal epilepsy due to presence of a cavernous angioma in the region of cortical motor area related to tongue movements. It is an clinical example of pathological conditions affecting the tongue area in motor homunculus. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8864572/ /pubmed/35228883 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5478 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: A case report
title_full Focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: A case report
title_fullStr Focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: A case report
title_short Focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: A case report
title_sort focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8864572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35228883
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5478
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