Supratentorial cavernous angiomas presenting with seizures: surgical outcomes in 60 consecutive patients.
The aim of this study is to determine surgical outcomes and factors affecting seizure outcomes in patients who harbor supratentorial cavernous angiomas presenting with seizures. Sixty patients were classified into the intractable epilepsy group (n=22) and the sporadic seizure group (n=38) and then managed differently in accordance with our guidelines. Patients exhibiting sporadic seizures were treated by lesionectomy, except for patients harboring mesial temporal lesions. We performed lesionectomy, extended lesionectomy, standard temporal lobectomy and tailored resection on 33, 9, 9 and 9 patients, respectively. Finally, 72.7% (16/22) of patients with intractable epilepsy and 89.5% (34/38) of patients with sporadic seizures achieved Engel Class I outcomes. A long duration of illness was somewhat related to a poor outcome in patients with intractable epilepsy, yet this was not true of patients with sporadic seizures. Other factors which included age at onset, size of the lesions and locations were not related to seizure outcomes. The role of residual hemosiderin is yet to be discovered. A lesionectomy alone can be considered a reasonable approach for those patients who exhibit sporadic seizures and have an extra-temporal or neo-temporal lesion. In patients with intractable epilepsy and/or mesial temporal lesions, a more invasive approach could achieve the better seizure outcome.
Yeon
Je Young
JY
Department of Neurosurgery, Samsung Medical Center, 50 IL-Won Dong, Kang-Nam Ku, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Kim
Jong-Soo
JS
Choi
Su Jung
SJ
Seo
Dae-Won
DW
Hong
Seung Bong
SB
Hong
Seung-Chyul
SC
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D020786:Hemangioma, Cavernous, Central Nervous System / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011612:Psychosurgery / Q000379:methods*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012640:Seizures / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D015173:Supratentorial Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult