Catastrophic focal epilepsy.
Focal epilepsy can present with a rapidly progressing course of intractable epilepsy in children. We present a typical example of such a patient with focal seizures due to a frontal lobe cortical lesion of developmental origin. MRI and SPECT revealed abnormalities in the right frontal lobe. Surgical resection resulted in excellent outcome.
NYU Epilepsy Center, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. Ruben.Kuziecky@med.nyu.edu
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D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009421:Nervous System Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011300:Preoperative Care; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon