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A D Huott

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PubMed1980

Surgically correctable lesions solely detected by CT scan in adult-onset chronic epilepsy.

A prospective study of 162 patients with adult-onset chronic epilepsy revealed 4 in whom computed tomographic scanning was the only diagnostic test that detected the presence of a surgically correctable cerebral lesion. These patients had suffered from seizures for 1 to 14 years and at the time of operation demonstrated no clinical neurological deficits except organic mental changes.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

Seizures in thyrotoxicosis.

Over a period of 2 years we have observed 3 thyrotoxic patients who presented with a convulsive encephalopathy. These patients had no history of seizures before and experienced no further seizures after subsidence of the thyroid dysfunction. During the convulsive period, electroencephalograms of 2 patients showed evidence of cerebral hyperexcitability, but in both cases it returned to normal once the thyroid disorder was corrected. We believe that thyrotoxic seizures are not rare. These seizures can be focal as well as generalized and can constitute the presenting symptoms of the disease. Absence of other laboratory abnormalities such as serum electrolytes, or osmolality changes, or hypoglycemia in all patients who reportedly suffered from thyrotoxic seizures, and the data obtained from animal studies, suggest that human thyrotoxic seizures result mainly from the direct effect of thyroid hormones over the cerebral tissue.

Adult↗
PubMed1978

Surgically correctable lesions detected by CT in 143 patients with chronic epilepsy.

CT findings justified surgical intervention in four young patients who had suffered from intractable epilepsy for many years. Previous non-invasive and invasive neurodiagnostic procedures with these patients had failed to show focal cerebral lesions amenable to surgical treatment. All four patients achieved significant relief from seizures after the operations.

Adolescent↗