Tuberous sclerosis: epileptogenicity and multimodal presurgical evaluations

Y Ohta; T Nariai; H Akimoto; M Shimohira; J Sugimoto; K Ohno; M Senda; K Hirakawa

doi:10.1007/s003810000442

Tuberous sclerosis: epileptogenicity and multimodal presurgical evaluations

Childs Nerv Syst. 2001 May;17(6):313-9. doi: 10.1007/s003810000442.

Authors

Y Ohta¹, T Nariai, H Akimoto, M Shimohira, J Sugimoto, K Ohno, M Senda, K Hirakawa

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519 Japan. ohta.nsrg@tmd.ac.jp

PMID: 11417410
DOI: 10.1007/s003810000442

Abstract

We report on a patient with tuberous sclerosis-related epilepsy who benefited from surgical treatment. Various presurgical evaluations, including positron emission tomography (PET), made it possible for us to localize the epileptic focus accurately. In this paper, we stress the importance of performing multimodal evaluations to determine which tubers really possess epileptogenicity. In addition, the implications of PET in tuberous sclerosis-related epilepsy are described.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Cerebral Cortex / pathology
Cerebral Cortex / surgery
Child, Preschool
Diagnostic Imaging*
Electroencephalography*
Electromyography
Epilepsies, Myoclonic / diagnosis
Epilepsies, Myoclonic / pathology
Epilepsies, Myoclonic / surgery
Epilepsy / diagnosis
Epilepsy / pathology
Epilepsy / surgery*
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted*
Imaging, Three-Dimensional*
Male
Tomography, Emission-Computed
Tuberous Sclerosis / diagnosis
Tuberous Sclerosis / pathology
Tuberous Sclerosis / surgery*