Familial mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with febrile seizures

A rare, genetic, familial partial epilepsy disease characterized by simple partial seizures, complex partial seizures and/or secondarily generalized seizures, originating from the inner aspect of the temporal lobe, associated with an antecedant history of febrile seizures, ocurring in various members of a family. Hippocampal abnormalities (e.g. hippocampal sclerosis) may also be associated.