Multicystic encephalomalacia in an adult case of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: a case report.
It is well known that multicystic encephalomalacia results in a severe neurological deficit and psychomotor retardation. The authors reported the case of a 30-year-old man with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome who had multicystic encephalomalacia in CT and MRI but whose neurological deficit was not serious. It is possible that the forceps delivery caused MCE and that a vaccination against Japanese encephalitis at the age of 9 triggered the Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
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Epilepsy Center, Hoshi General Hospital, Koriyama, Japan.
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