ISSN:
0942-0940
Keywords:
Cavernous angioma
;
ECoG
;
epileptogenic focus
;
surgical treatment
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Summary In a case of cavernous angioma, a remote gyrus, which was found to contain an epileptogenic focus by intraoperative electrocorticography (ECoG), was resected simultaneously with lesionectomy. The patient was a 27-year-old male who was referred to our hospital because of frequent systemic tonic-clonic convulsions. ECoG revealed an epileptogenic focus not only in the cortex around the angioma-affected tissue of the left frontal lobe but also in an in addition to lesionectomy. The postoperative course was uneventful. Now (two years after surgery), the patient is seizure-free In the surgical treatment of convulsions-accompanied by cavernous angioma, it is essential not only to detect epileptogenic foci by intraoperative ECoG but also to remove these foci together with the angioma.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01808773
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