title: Progressive facial hemiatrophy after epileptic seizures.
abstract: Intractable complex partial seizures developed in a 3-year-old female with normal intracranial findings on computed tomography. Frontal paramedian band-like depression of the skin gradually developed thereafter, and progressive facial hemiatrophy (Parry-Romberg syndrome) was diagnosed. Computed tomography scanning at 5 years of age revealed multiple parenchymal calcifications and low-density areas in the white matter of the frontoparietal lobes. Epileptic seizures, one of the major neurologic complications of progressive facial hemiatrophy, could precede the succeeding neurocutaneous changes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics; Akita University School of Medicine;, Akita, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yano
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sawaishi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Toyono
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Takaku
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Takada
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005150:Facial Hemiatrophy / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging