title: Surgically correctable lesions solely detected by CT scan in adult-onset chronic epilepsy.
abstract: A prospective study of 162 patients with adult-onset chronic epilepsy revealed 4 in whom computed tomographic scanning was the only diagnostic test that detected the presence of a surgically correctable cerebral lesion. These patients had suffered from seizures for 1 to 14 years and at the time of operation demonstrated no clinical neurological deficits except organic mental changes.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001254:Astrocytoma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D003560:Cysts / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005911:Gliosis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed