Author(s)

Haoyue Zhu, Xiuli Shang^*

Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.

Late-Onset Epilepsy (LOE), with onset in adult life, is often attributed to cerebrovascular disease and intracranial tumor. Herein we present a LOE patient with history of Linear Scleroderma en Coup de Sabre (LScs) and abnormal cranial MRI signs. Curiously, his band-like skin lesion, presenting on the forehead, was in line with the surface projection of the intracranial focus shown in MRI. This gave a clue of the link between the skin lesion and the intracranial focus and the epilepsy. To sum up, it exposed a rare cause of LOE. Moreover, it underlined the significance of recognizing the cause to be associated with a substantially increased risk of developing epilepsy.

Epilepsy, Late-Onset, Linear Scleroderma en Coup de Sabre

Zhu, H. and Shang, X. (2016) A Rare Cause of Late-Onset Epilepsy: Linear Scleroderma en Coup de Sabre. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 5, 150-153. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2016.54028.