CT, MRI, and PET in a case of intractable epilepsy.
We report the case of a child with drug-refractory partial epilepsy in whom computed tomography showed no abnormality and magnetic resonance imaging showed a noninvasive cystic lesion in the left hippocampus. The finding in the positron emission tomography study with L-[methyl-11C]-methionine as a tracer suggested a tumor. This finding was confirmed histologically.
Metsähonkala
L
L
Department of Child Neurology, Turku University Hospital, Finland.
Aärimaa
T
T
Sonninen
P
P
Mikola
H
H
Ruotsalainen
U
U
Bergman
J
J
D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000209:etiology*; D018303:Ganglioglioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed