VOLVULAR EPILEPSY ASSOCIATED WITH LINE-OF-MIGRATION ABNORMALITY - A CASE-REPORT

Line-of-migration abnormalities are a form of heterotopic gray matter that consists of collections of neurons in abnormal locations and are thought to result from arrest of radial migration of neuroblasts.(1,2) Heterotopic gray matter is associated with seizure disorders that are usually generalized.(2) Volvular epilepsy is rarely reported in the l iterature and is a form of simple partial seizures in which an epilept ic focus causes the patient to repetitively walk in small circles.(3) Common causes of this rare disease include neoplasms, infarction, gian t aneurysms, and posttraumatic lesions that are most often in the righ t frontotemporal lobe.(3) We report the first association between volv ular Epilepsy and a line-of-migration abnormality.