title: [Neuropathology of hard to control epilepsy. Study of 300 consecutive cases].
abstract: We report histopathological findings in 300 consecutive surgical specimens from epilepsy surgery during 6 years. Our material was mainly from temporal lobe epilepsy (70.33%). In 44% the diagnosis was hippocampal sclerosis. There were tumors in 15% of cases and neuronal migration disorders in 10%. The most common tumors were gangliogliomas (42.22%) and dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors (20%). We review the more frequent diagnosis in epilepsy surgery based on this series and comparing with literature.
authors.affiliation: Fundação Faculdade Federal de Ciências Médicas de Porto Alegre (FFFCMPA), Brasil.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Barbosa-Coutinho
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hilbig
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Calcagnotto
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Paglioli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Paglioli Neto
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Da Costa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Palmini
authors.forename: E C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: De Paula
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D012598:Sclerosis
vernacular_title: Neuropatologia das epilepsias de difícil controle. Estudo de 300 casos consecutivos.