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Epilepsy as the first symptom of the late discovered intracranial lesions

Borislav Vuković

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In this work a group of 83 patients with epileptic seizures was analysed. They began after the age of 15, and were going on for more than a year with constant focal changes in electroencephalography. 42 (50.6%) patients had pathologic computerized tomograms of the skull, and 41 (49.4%) had normal computerized tomograms. Macrofactors (intracranial lesions) were discovered as the cause of epilepsy in 28 (33.7%) patients, and 10 (12.0%) of them were tumours. Epileptic seizures were the first symptom, and constant focal electroencephalography changes were the first sign of the development of a macrofactor. In patients with epilepsy who have constant focal electroencephalography changes, methods for discovering structural changes should be applied constantly until the changes are proven or excluded. Normal computerized tomogram of the scull doesn’t exclude the existence of a macrofactor. In patients with epilepsy which began after the age of 15 and continued for more than a year with constant focal changes in electroencephalography, 18% of the patients (p<0,01) can be expected to have a macrofactor.

Ključne riječi

epilepsy; intracranial lesions

Hrčak ID:

194697

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/194697

Datum izdavanja:

1.12.1993.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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