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Status epilepticus is usually a straightforward diagnosis when a patient has two or more seizures without regaining consciousness. However, when status is nonconvulsive and, in particular, has a temporal lobe flavour the clinical presentation may be misleading. Presentation with automatic or psychic behaviour is well recorded. We report a patient with nonconvulsive status who presented with progressive dysphasia with widespread CT and MRI changes. The dysphasia and imaging changes led to a diagnosis of a probable neoplastic brain process but reversed with anticonvulsant treatment.
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Murchison, J.T., Sellar, R.J. & Steers, A.J.W. Status epilepticus presenting as progressive dysphasia. Neuroradiology 37, 438–439 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00600083
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