Eylem DEĞİRMENCİ, Taner DEĞİRMENCİ, Rabia KARASU

Multiple migration defects of cerebral cortex in a patient with epileptic seizures mimicking panic attacks

Nöronal migrasyon anomalileri serebral neokorteks malformasyonlarına neden olabilir ve bu hastaların ilk başvuruları ve klinik gidişi değişkenlik gösterebilir. Bu yazıda, başlangıçta epizodik panik atakları olduğu düşünülen, ancak ileri incelemelerden sonra bunların serebral kortikal migrasyon anomalileri ile ilişkili epileptik nöbetler olduğu anlaşılan bir olgu sunulacaktır.

Panik ataklarını taklit eden epileptik nöbetleri olan bir hastada serebral kortikal migrasyon defektleri

Disorders of neuronal migration can lead to malformations of the cerebral neocortex and presentation and clinical course of patients these patients are variable. In this paper, we report a patient with episodic attacks initially thought to be panic attacks which on further investigation were identified to be seizure episodes to be associated with cerebral cortical migration abnormalities.

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