Investigations on epileptogenic lesions in relation between ages of the patients and seizure manifestation.
The purpose of this report is to extract the age factor from multiple contributing factors to seizure manifestations in 357 cases of the various intracranial lesions, of which the locations and the pathological types had already been proven. The age distribution of the intracranial lesions depended largely upon their biological properties. Nevertheless, it had been proven that the seizure manifestation differed by ages of the patients even in the identical lesions. The younger patients were apt to lapse into seizures which became more frequent than in the older patients. The types of seizures seemed to be converted from the generalized to the partial, as the patients go through a transition from childhood to adulthood. Recognition of such a seizure manifestation is especially important in order to detect as soon as possible epileptogenic lesions as a surgically treatable cause of chronic epilepsy.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000473:pathology; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000473:pathology*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed