title: [Recent advance in epileptology].
abstract: Nowadays epilepsy is classified according to the international classification of epilepsies, epileptic syndromes and related disorders proposed by International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE, 1989). Among these epilepsies and epileptic syndromes, I detailed the clinical symptomatology and the clinical significance of benign familial neonatal convulsions, juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, epilepsy with myoclonic absence, mesial temporal lobe epilepsy and chronic progressive epilepsia partialis continua of childhood. Of 218 patients with temporal lobe resection who were followed for over 2 years, 172 patients or 79% were seizure free according to Engel's criteria of seizure outcome after surgical treatment. Of 66 patients with extra-temporal lobe epilepsy, 43 patients or 65% were seizure free. From the postsurgical outcome I talked about the need of strict presurgical evaluation to have the good postsurgical outcome. The neuropathology of surgically resected 278 specimens of temporal lobe epilepsy was mesial temporal sclerosis in 184, neuroepithelial tumors in 66, cortical malformation in 11, vascular anomaly in 13, and others in 4. Thirty-nine of resected 66 specimens of extra-temporal lobe epilepsies were cortical malformation. I presented the recent progress of genetic study in epilepsies and stressed the importance of correct diagnosis of epilepsy for genetic study.
authors.affiliation: National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Higashi Hospital.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yagi
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000145:classification / Q000628:therapy; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome