STATUS EPILEPTICUS PRESENTING AS PROGRESSIVE DYSPHASIA

Status epilepticus is usually a straightforward diagnosis when a patie nt has two or more seizures without regaining consciousness, However, when status is nonconvulsive and, in particular, has a temporal lobe f lavour the clinical presentation may be misleading, Presentation with automatic or psychic behaviour is well recorded. We report a patient w ith 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 wit h anticonvulsant treatment.