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Rolandic epilepsy-paroxysmal exercise-induced dystonia-writer's cramp syndrome

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An infancy electroclinical syndrome characterized by onset of focal seizures in infancy and exercise-induced dystonia in childhood that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the TBC1D24 gene on chromosome 16p13.3.

Signs and symptoms

  • Paroxysmal dystonia
  • Focal motor seizure
  • Hand tremor
  • Writer's cramp
  • Nystagmus
  • Focal hemifacial clonic seizure
  • Prolonged somatosensory evoked potentials
  • Horizontal nystagmus
  • Myoclonus
  • Dysarthria

Also known as: EPRPDC; RE-PED-WC; Rolandic epilepsy with paroxysmal exercise-induced dystonia and writer's cramp; Rolandic-type focal motor epilepsy and exercise-induced dystonia