Eating Epilepsy After Resection of Frontal Meningioma: A Case Report
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VOLUME: 19 ISSUE: 2
P: 85 - 89
August 2013

Eating Epilepsy After Resection of Frontal Meningioma: A Case Report

Arch Epilepsy 2013;19(2):85-89
1. Department of Neurology, İzmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, İzmir
2. Department of Neurology, Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital, Kocaeli
3. Department of Neurology, Kocaeli Medical University Hospital, Kocaeli
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Received Date: 16.02.2013
Accepted Date: 28.02.2013
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ABSTRACT

Eating epilepsy (EE) is a rare type of reflex epilepsy. Eating-induced seizures are, in general, localization-related, and most commonly of the complex partial type. Less frequently, these seizures are of the simple partial type with or without secondary generalization. Here, we report a case of a 38-year-old female patient with EE after frontal meningioma resection. She had suffered from secondary generalized seizures unresponsive to any antiepileptic therapy for 3 years. She had both reflex and non-reflex seizures. However, most of the seizures were triggered by food or water deglutition. This was an unusual case of EE with secondary generalized tonic-clonic seizures.

Keywords:
Eating epilepsy, frontal meningioma resection, generalized tonic-clonic seizures