nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy

Etiology

• often associate with frontal lobe structural anomalieis
  • brain neoplasms
  • vascular malformations

Clinical manifestations

• nocturnal complex seizures that awakan patients from sleep

More general terms

• nocturnal epilepsy

More specific terms

• nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy-1 (ENFL1, ADNFLE)
• nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy-3 (ENFL3)
• nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy-4 (ENFL4)