Teaching Video NeuroImage: Shedding Light on Sunflower Syndrome
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We report a 12-year-old girl with history of absence and generalized tonic-clonic seizures as well stereotyped, light-induced, hand-waving episodes (HWEs) (video 1). The latter were occasionally accompanied by eye fluttering. Notably, her maternal uncle had childhood-onset seizures. Video-EEG confirmed that HWEs epileptic in nature 2). She was started on fenfluramine addition to valproate partial improvement HWEs.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0028-3878', '1526-632X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.0000000000011776