TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  Canavero, Isabella
AU  -  Ravaglia, Sabrina
AU  -  Postorino, Paolo
AU  -  Coloberti, Elisa
AU  -  Terzaghi, Michele
AU  -  Micalizzi, Elisa
AU  -  Toscano, Gianpaolo
AU  -  Rognone, Elisa
AU  -  Luzzi, Sabino
AU  -  Micieli, Giuseppe
T1  -  Pseudo-encephalopathy and crescendo cerebellar fits in a patient with a single breast cancer metastasis in the posterior fossa
PY  -  2024
Y1  -  2024-04-01
DO  -  10.1727/4286.42681
JO  -  Rivista di Neurologia
JA  -  Riv Neurol
VL  -  1
IS  -  2
SP  -  105
EP  -  106
PB  -  Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore
SN  -  3035-3599
Y2  -  2026/06/19
UR  -  http://dx.doi.org/10.1727/4286.42681
N2  -  Summary. Acute compression on the brainstem or acute increase in intracranial pressure may induce non-epileptic events varying from tonic seizures to axial rigidity with motor automatism, sometimes featured by decerebrate or decorticate paroxysmal posturing. These events are known as ‘‘cerebellar seizures or fits” and despite appearance are not of cortical origin. Misrecognition of such entity may entail an incongruous therapeutic intervention in potentially life-threatening situations. Of interest, the EEG correlate is characterized by diffuse asynchronous slow waves of variable amplitude. We described the challenging and peculiar clinical and neurophysiological presentation in a case of encephalopathy and crescendo cerebellar fits in an adult patient with a structural neoplastic etiology.
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