1994 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages 10-15
A Japanese girl with epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) accompanied by series ofpartial serizures is reported. She developed EPC at age 5 months, and during theensueing month, she also developed a series of partial seizures consisting of flexion ofthe right elbow and rotation of the neck to the right in series at intervals of 8-10seconds for a period of 10 minutes. The series of seizures resembled periodic spasms (PS) first described by Gobbi et al. in 1987, but differed from PS because of its focalmanifestations and ictal EEG showing unilateral high voltage slow waves over thecontralateral hemisphere.
In EPC, such a peculiar series of partial seizures has not been previously described.However a series of partial seizures can be coexistent with EPC, because EPC andseries of partial seizures are both based on cortical epileptic abnormality.
