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Focal epilepsy presenting as tongue tremor: A case report.

Mehri SalariKamran RezaeiAlimohammad MirdehghanArya BehzadiMasoud Etemadifar
Published in: Clinical case reports (2022)
Plenty of etiologies are reported to cause tongue tremor. Focal epilepsy presenting as isolated tongue tremor is a rare condition, suggesting how variable the focal seizure presentation may be. This paper reports a case of focal epilepsy due to presence of a cavernous angioma in the region of cortical motor area related to tongue movements. It is an clinical example of pathological conditions affecting the tongue area in motor homunculus.
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