PURPOSE To assess the incidence and the prognostic value of acute postoperative seizures (APOS) in patients surgically treated for drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy due to hippocampal sclerosis (TLE-HS). METHODS We studied 139 consecutive patients with TLE-HS who underwent epilepsy surgery and were followed up for at least 5 years (mean duration of follow-up 9.1 years, range 5-15). Medica...

Patients of 50 years or older account for a small but significant portion of the patient population that receives surgical treatment for epilepsy. There have been few studies reporting surgical outcomes from temporal lobectomy in older patients. We examined seizure outcome and surgical complications after anterior temporal lobectomy for temporal lobe epilepsy with pathological evidence of unila...

castleman's disease is an uncommon cause of lymph node enlargement that mostly involves the mediastinum and lung hilum. it is divided into 2 types: localized, which is usually asymptomatic and presents with a mass lesion; and multicentric, which is characterized by chills, anemia, generalized lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly. an extrathoracic site of involvement is very uncommon, and may ...

PURPOSE Our purpose was to determine the variation in location, distribution, and sex predilection of arytenoid cartilage sclerosis in a population of patients without laryngeal cancer as an aid to understanding the significance of this entity when seen in patients with laryngeal cancer. METHODS One hundred CT examinations of patients of different ages and with no history of laryngeal cancer ...

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PURPOSE To identify the extent of hippocampal sclerosis in temporal lobe epilepsy with fast spin-echo MR and correlate it with histopathologic findings and surgical outcome. METHODS MR images of 30 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and pathologically proved hippocampal sclerosis and 30 control subjects were obtained using a fast spin-echo technique with 4000/100/4 (repetition time/echo tim...

The temporal lobe is a common focus for epilepsy. Temporal lobe epilepsy in infants and children differs from the relatively homogeneous syndrome seen in adults in several important clinical and pathological ways. Seizure semiology varies by age, and the ictal EEG pattern may be less clear cut than what is seen in adults. Additionally, the occurrence of intractable seizures in the developing br...

PURPOSE We employed the results of imaging modalities from pediatric patients who received successful epilepsy surgery to determine the accuracy of each imaging tool in identifying epileptic zones in youngsters. METHODS All Engel class I pediatric patients who received epilepsy surgery between October 2003 and April 2008 were selected. Their pathology, EEG, MRI, PET, and subtraction ictal SPE...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is considered as a major health threat in the Indian subcontinent. Leishmania donovani, a usually visceralizing species, causes cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Sri Lanka. However, visceralizing potential of the local L. donovani is not yet fully understood. This project studied the seroprevalence of local CL by using an in-house ELISA. An IgG-based ELISA using crude ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to explore the relationship between language and memory lateralization in patients with epilepsy undergoing the intracarotid amobarbital procedure. METHODS In 386 patients, language lateralization and memory lateralization as determined by laterality index (LI) were correlated with each other. RESULTS Language lateralization and memory lateralization wer...