Vestibular epilepsy refers to recurrent seizures that cause dizziness/vertigo as a
sole or predominant symptom [
[1]
]. It is due to epileptic discharges from the vestibular cortices mostly residing in
the temporal [
[2]
] or temporo-parietal areas [
3
,
4
,
5
] but also in the frontal cortex [
[6]
]. Cerebral cavernous malformations, an enlarged collection of vascular channels invading
adjacent brain tissue, mostly present with recurrent seizures in the supratentorial
areas. Vestibular epilepsy has been reported in oligodendroglioma [
[7]
] and astrocytoma [
[6]
], but has not been described in association with a cavernous malformation. Herein,
we describe a patient with recurrent spontaneous vertigo from a small temporal cavernous
malformation that had escaped detection for several years.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: March 21, 2015
Accepted:
March 12,
2015
Received in revised form:
March 11,
2015
Received:
January 21,
2015
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