Epileptic vertigo: evidence for vestibular representation in human frontal cortex.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
The authors report a 5-year-old boy with episodes of epileptic rotational clockwise vertigo without nystagmus. Video-EEG monitoring showed a left frontocentral onset of epileptic discharges accompanied by complaints of vertigo. MRI showed a small low-grade astrocytoma in the left frontal middle gyrus. After lesionectomy, vertiginous seizures ceased. The patient's vertigo seems to be induced by epileptic discharges in a vestibular representation area within the frontal cortex.
Medical subject headings
- Epilepsy
- Frontal Lobe
- Vertigo