Goldberg-Stern Hadassa, Gadoth Nathan, Cahill William, Privitera Michael
Epilepsy Center, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petah Tiqva, Israel.
Neurology. 2004 May 11;62(9):1637-8. doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000123091.64548.6c.
Postictal language delay (PILD) patterns can lateralize temporal lobe complex partial seizures (CPS). The authors studied PILD in 24 patients with 118 frontal lobe CPS. Prolonged PILD occurred in only 7% of CPS confined to the dominant frontal lobe compared with 91% of CPS that started as frontal and spread to the dominant temporal lobe (p = 0.0001). Postictal language testing provides important information on frontal CPS localization and spread.