Clinical features of benign rolandic epilepsy of childhood
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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Reference
- NICE. Epilepsies in children, young people and adults. NICE guideline NG217 Published April 2022
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