title: Indolent glioma: a cause of epilepsy.
abstract: We studied eight patients with indolent gliomas. In all eight cases, despite characteristic radiological features, there was a delay in diagnosis because of misinterpretation of the initial computed tomogram. These tumours are an important cause of epilepsy of childhood, and surgery may well alleviate the epilepsy and possibly achieve a long term 'cure'. Therefore it is important that a diagnosis is made early and the lesion completely excised.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakasu
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Jeffree
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Molyneux
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Adams
mesh_terms: D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D005910:Glioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009837:Oligodendroglioma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed