Status gelasticus after temporal lobectomy: Ictal FDG-PET findings and the question of dual pathology involving hypothalamic hamartomas

Epilepsia

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1313-1316

  Palmini, Andre ^a,b   Van Paesschen, Wim ^b   Dupont, Patrick ^b   Van Laere, Koen ^b   Van Driel, Guido ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dual pathology; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Ictal FDG PET; Status gelasticus; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; GELASTIC SEIZURE; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; HYPERMETABOLISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; BRAIN ARACHNOID CYST; COMORBIDITY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HYPOTHALAMUS DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ARACHNOID CYSTS; COMORBIDITY; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, COMPLEX PARTIAL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23944503373     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2005.52804.x     Document Type: Article

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