Tumor-Induced Sensory Epilepsy: About A Case

Abstract

Olfactory hallucinations are part of psychosensory hallucinations, most often associated with taste hallucinations, and especially experienced in an unpleasant manner (unpleasant odors). The causes are multiple, and the epileptic origin is rare, described for the first time by Jackson in 1899, they are related to an epileptic discharge at the internal temporal level, particularly the uncus or the orbito-frontal cortex [1]. We report the observation of a patient who presented with olfactory hallucinations of epileptic origin, revealing temporal internal epilepsy in a ganglioglioma.