Paroxysmal pain as the only presentation of focal epilepsy

Abstract

Abstract Painful seizures can be the only feature of focal epilepsy. Its localization on a limb favors the epileptic etiology, while abdominal or cephalic paroxysmal pain is not so specific. Painful somatosensory seizures arise from operculo‐insular cortex.

Keywords

• glioblastoma
• ictal pain
• insula
• painful seizure
• parietal operculum