Chronic encephalitis and temporal lobe epilepsy: A variant of Rasmussen’s syndrome?
- 13 March 2001
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 56 (5), 678-681
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.56.5.678
Abstract
The authors report two adult patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy and pathologic features consistent with Rasmussen’s encephalitis. Although seizures persisted after temporal lobe surgery no progressive cognitive or neurologic deficit has emerged. Prominent auditory auras in each suggested a persisting epileptogenic focus in the superior temporal gyrus. The current findings expand the clinical spectrum of Rasmussen’s encephalitis and suggest that chronic nonprogressive encephalitis may serve as the pathologic substrate of medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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