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Intractable Seizures in Pregnancy Lancet 354:1522, Smith,P.E.M.,et al, 1999 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract We evaluated pelvic thrusting as a potential diagnostic sign and localizing indicator of ictal onset. By reviewing the video-EEG results of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, frontal lobe epilepsy, generalized epilepsy, and pseudoseizur es. Pelvic thrusting occurred in 4% of right and 2% of left temporal lobe epilepsy patients, in 24% of frontal lobe epilepsy patients, and in 17% of patients with pseudoseizures. Pelvic thrusting is relatively common in frontal lobe epilepsy and in pseud oseizures, but also occurs in temporal lobe epilepsy.

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