Focal sensory seizure with somatosensory features

What it means

A seizure characterized by sensory phenomena including tingling, numbness, electric-shock like sensation, pain, sense of movement, or desire to move as its first clinical manifestation.

These seizures involve the sensorimotor cortex.

Rare diseases that can present with this2

The range is how often this sign appears among people diagnosed with each disease — it is not a probability of having any of them. Many of these signs also occur in common, non-rare conditions. A sign on this page is a conversation to have with a clinician, not a conclusion.

Part of the broader category

Also called: Focal somatosensory seizure · Partial somatosensory seizure · Somatosensory aura · Somatosensory auras