Unilateral abdominal clonic jerking as an epileptic phenomenon

Abstract

Highlights We report three cases of focal aware seizures presenting as unilateral abdominal clonic motor movements. One of these cases is the first seizure manifesting as unilateral abdominal clonic motor movements with simultaneous intracranial electrode recording in the literature, and demonstrates the utility of intracranial EEG in the diagnosis. The symptomatic zone of seizures presenting as unilateral abdominal clonic motor movements is felt to be in an anatomically restricted area of the abdominal region of the motor homunculus. A careful clinical history is important in the assessment of this seizure type, and the diagnosis is ideally established with video-EEG.