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Sensory Jacksonian seizures triggered by a frontally-located meningioma

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A patient who presented with sensory Jacksonian seizures and no other clinical symptoms was found to have a meningioma in the premotor area of the frontal lobe. The possibility that brain oedema caused by the tumour encroached on the supplementary motor area and triggered the seizures via cortico-cortical pathways is discussed.

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  1. F. Umansky, E. Reichenthal & M. N. Shalit

    Present address: Department of Neurosurgery, Beilinson Medical Centre, and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Petah Tiqva, Israel

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    Umansky, F., Reichenthal, E. & Shalit, M.N. Sensory Jacksonian seizures triggered by a frontally-located meningioma. Acta neurochir 49, 61–65 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01809174

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