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Lingual epilepsy due to cortical demyelination involving the frontal operculum
  1. Musab Eltahir1,
  2. Tarig Abkur2,3,
  3. Hugh Kearney4,5,
  4. Claire M Rice1,6
  1. 1 Department of Neurology, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK
  2. 2 Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  3. 3 Movement Disorders Clinic, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  4. 4 Department of Neurology, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  5. 5 Academic Unit of Neurology, Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine, Dublin, Ireland
  6. 6 Translational Health Sciences, University of Bristol Medical School, Bristol, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Tarig Abkur, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Tarig.Abkur{at}mail.utoronto.ca

https://doi.org/10.1136/pn-2023-004020

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    Figure 1

    Self-recorded stereotyped left-sided lingual and lower facial clonic movements (see online supplemental video).

    MR scan of brain with gadolinium contrast identified no new or enhancing lesions but showed a …

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    • Contributors ME: concept, design and first draft. TA: concept, design, literature review and critical revision. HK and CMR: critical revision for important intellectual content.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned. Externally peer-reviewed by Fahmida Chowdhury, London, UK and Shanika Samarasekera, Birmingham, UK.

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