Myoclonic seizures in symptomatic temporal lobe epilepsy of childhood

RESUMO

Generalized epileptic manifestations may occur in symptomatic focal epilepsies in children, particularly in infants and pre-school children. Our aim here is to report two patients with myoclonic seizures associated with temporal lobe epilepsy. Two children with tumor in temporal lobe presented myoclonic seizures or spasms since infancy besides other types of seizures. Our findings support the idea that myoclonic seizures may be generalized manifestations of focal insults to the CNS, and this pattern may be an age-dependent specific response of a developing brain to a severe insult