Epileptic Disorders
MENUEncephalocele-associated temporal lobe epilepsy and skull fibrous dysplasia: a report of two cases Volume 23, numéro 6, December 2021
Auteurs
1 Department of Neurology,
2 Department of Radiology,
3 Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st St. SW, Rochester, MN, USA
* Correspondence: Kelsey M. Smith
Department of Neurology,
Mayo Clinic, 200 1st St. SW,
Rochester, MN, USA
- DOI : 10.1684/epd.2021.1335
- Page(s) : 940-3
- Année de parution : 2021
Temporal lobe encephaloceles are an important cause of drug-resistant focal epilepsy, and advances in imaging modalities have led to increased recognition [1, 2]. Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a benign process in which bone is replaced by connective tissue and poorly formed trabecular bone. It may affect multiple bones (polyostotic) or remain isolated to one bone, including the skull [3]. Although seizures have been recognized in patients with FD of the skull [4-9], the pathogenicity has not been well [...]