Surgical management of parietal lobe epilepsy.
Adv Neurol
; 93: 347-56, 2003.
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| ID: mdl-12894419
ABSTRACT
Parietal lobe seizure foci are difficult to localize unless there is an MRI lesion or contralateral sensory aura. Rapid network projection often makes scalp EEG and semiology misleading. However, seizure control can be achieved with reasonable success when concordant information guides the physician to a parietal ictal onset. Perhaps the most important messages that this small surgical series provides is that of neurologic outcome. The parietal lobe is a highly convergent cortical region and a major network way station. Except for primary sensory phenomena and language, one cannot temporarily ablate parietal cortical association area within a presumed epileptogenic region and predict the visuospatial, cognitive, and neurologic outcome. Therefore, data demonstrating that one can resect regions of parietal cortex and not cause serious dysfunction are helpful. The mild morbidity encountered in this group of patients would not be necessarily predicted if the same region of normal parietal lobe was resected. Therefore, one must consider cortical plasticity and functional redistribution as possible reasons for this, particularly when most of these substrates are of developmental origin.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Lobo Parietal
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Epilepsia
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2003
Tipo de documento:
Article