Bilateral fronto-occipital polymicrogyria and epilepsy.
Seizure
; 10(4): 298-302, 2001 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-11466027
ABSTRACT
We present a clinico-pathological case report in which both cortical dysplasia and epilepsy coexisted a 30 year old male who was dead on arrival at hospital. One and a half hours earlier he had developed complex partial status with peri-oral cyanosis. At post mortem examination his brain showed bilateral occipital frontal polymicrogyria with unlayered neuronal migration disorder; in other parts there were fourth layer migration disorders. The white matter exhibited multicystic encephalopathy. In the heart there was chronic interstitial and perivascular fibrosis, although he died of a cardiac arrest. Bilateral frontal-occipital polymicrogyria is highly epileptogenic. This was a sporadic case and we cannot define a clear aetiology. There was a pathological cardiac condition without previous vascular risk factors which might be related to repetition of seizures and possibly to his sudden death during status epilepticus.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Epilepsia
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Lobo Frontal
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Lobo Occipital
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Seizure
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2001
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Espanha