Surgically correctable lesions solely detected by CT scan in adult-onset chronic epilepsy

✍ Scribed by Dr Bahman Jabbari; Archer D. Huott; Giovani Di Chiro; Albert N. Martins; Lloyd A. Youngblood; Michael G. Harper

• Book ID: 101462146
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 432 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0364-5134
• DOI: 10.1002/ana.410070411

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A prospective study of 162 patients with adult‐onset chronic epilepsy revealed 4 in whom computed tomographic scanning was the only diagnostic test that detected the presence of a surgically correctable cerebral lesion. These patients had suffered from seizures for 1 to 14 years and at the time of operation demonstrated no clinical neurological deficits except organic mental changes.