...Masoud Majed; Yasir Andrabi; Farideh Nejat; Mostafa El Khashab Objective: There are controversies about seizure risk factors in shunted hydrocephalic patients which can be due to having merged two different types of seizure (preshunt and postshunt seizures) in previous studies. Also...

..., the infant had an initial complete recovery, but developed recurrence of facial twitches after 2 weeks. Repeat MRI showed a small residual tumor which was re-operated and completely excised (at 8 weeks). Following this, the patient had complete recovery from seizures (5-year follow-up). This is the youngest...

...George A. Alexiou; Maria Moschovi; Kalliopi Stefanaki; George Siozos; Christiana Hatzigiorgi; Neofytos Prodromou A 5-year-old boy with a history of epilepsy underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of an increase in seizure frequency. Brain MRI demonstrated a left frontal lesion...

... functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), frameless stereotaxy, and direct cortical mapping and recording could facilitate the excision of these lesions while minimizing potential neurological deficits. The mean age of the children was 10 years. Fourteen children presented with seizures. All lesions were...

.... Anaplasia Ganglioglioma Mixed neuronal-glial tumors Neuroepithelial neoplasms Neuroglia Seizures Subarachnoid involvement .Pediatric Neurosurgery Original Paper Pcdiatr Ncurosurg 1996;24:306-313 M uraliM . Chintagumpala3 Dawna Armstrong* Seiko M ikic Tess Nelson3 William Cheekd John Laurentd Shiao...

..., to evaluate the importance of seizures in their presentation and natural history. Tumors were diagnosed using the WHO criteria as pilocytic astrocytomas, astrocytomas, anaplastic astrocytomas, glioblastomas, giant cell glioblastomas, oligoastrocytomas and gangliogliomas. Our results were as follows. (1) Fifty...

...Hiroshi Otsubo; Sylvester H. Chuang; Paul A. Hwang; David Gilday; Harold J. Hoffman In patients with structural abnormalities of the brain with poor seizure control by medication, epilepsy surgery becomes a very important tool for seizure control. Numerous radiological imaging studies are being...

...D.K. Gupta; G.D. Satyarthee; M.C. Sharma; A.K. Mahapatra A rare case of hypothalamic glioma in a 7-year-old boy presenting with seizures and diabetes insipidus is reported. Near total decompression of the hypothalamic glioma was done successfully using subfrontal approach. The patient had a stormy...

...Cormac O. Maher; Aaron A. Cohen-Gadol; Corey Raffel Linear sebaceous nevus syndrome (LSNS) is a rare neurocutaneous syndrome that is associated with seizures and mental retardation. The cortical abnormalities that are associated with this syndrome include focal cortical dysplasia, partial...

...Greg Olavarria; Joseph A. Petronio It has been demonstrated that intractable seizures in children can be eliminated or become more responsive to anticonvulsant medication after surgical resection of the epileptogenic focus or dysfunctional hemisphere. We describe our surgical experience with 4...

...R. Shane Tubbs; John C. Wellons III; Ravish V. Patwardhan; W. Jerry Oakes; J. Michael Wyss Objective: This study tests the hypothesis that the ability of Hering’s nerve stimulation (HNS) to blunt seizure activity is dependent on the availability of dopamine in the amygdala. Methods: In 10 rats...

...Uri Kramer; Andrew A. Kanner; Vitale Siomin; Shaul Harel; Shlomi Constantini Patients with ventriculo-peritoneal shunts are predisposed to various complications, including the appearance of seizures over time. The high rate of complications prompted an interest in alternative procedures...

... 3 2001 Epilepsy Seizures Cortical freezing lesions Microgyria Neuronal migration Biotinylated dextran amine Dendrites Dendritic spines Advances in morphological and functional imaging techniques have identified congenital cerebral lesions as causes of refractory partial...

...Uri Kramer; Sergey Spector; Walid Nasser; Vitali Siomin; Itzhak Fried; Shlomi Constantini Refractory gelastic seizures are often associated with hypothalamic hamartoma (HH). Presurgical evaluation in such children often points to a distinct cortical region as the source of the seizures. A case...

...Katrina S. Firlik; P. David Adelson; Ronald L. Hamilton A small number of recent reports have documented coexisting cerebral pathologic entities in patients with Rasmussen’s encephalitis. We report the case of a 4-year-old boy who presented with refractory seizures and was found to have both...