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Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1995;38(1):138-140. Published online January 15, 1995.

A Case of Defecation-induced Epilepsy

Dong Nam DN Kim¹, In Seung IS Park¹, In Joon IJ Seol¹

¹Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Defecation induced epilepsy is a very rare form of reflex epilepsy, which has not been reported yet in Korea. We experienced a case of defecation-induced epilepsy in a 10 month old boy who has been showing seizure with every defecation since 5 months of his age. Diagnosis was made by clinical history and appearance of clinical seizure with epileptiform activities in electroencephalography after glycerine enema during recording.

Keywords :Defecation-induced epilepsy