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OBJETIVO: presentar nuestra experiencia en cirugía de epilepsia con electrocorticografía intraoperatoria, en 19 pacientes. MATERIAL Y MÉTODO: estudio retrospectivo basado en historias clínicas de pacientes con epilepsia lesional operados en el Sanatorio Allende, de Córdoba, entre el 1 de diciembre de 1997 y el 30 de noviembre de 2013. En esta serie hubo 14 enfermos menores de 20 años y sólo 5 mayores de esa edad. Las lesiones fueron: en 10 (52,6%) displasias corticales, en 6 (31,5%) tumores, en 2 gliosis cicatrizal y en 1 cavernoma frontal. La localización fue temporal en 4 (21%) y extratemporal en 15 (79%). Tenían epilepsia refractaria 13 (67,3%) enfermos. RESULTADOS: el tratamiento fue satisfactorio si analizamos el control de las crisis. Actualmente 14 (73,6%) están libres de crisis, sólo 4 de ellos tienen un EEG anormal, por lo cual continúan medicados. De los 5 (26,4%) enfermos que continúan con crisis, 3 tienen episodios esporádicos y tienen una sola medicación; los otros 2 tienen crisis frecuentes por lo cual reciben 3 fármacos antiepilépticos. CONCLUSIÓN: la electrocorticografía intraoperatoria nos ha permitido identificar con precisión el foco epileptógeno, que en muchos casos esta adyacente o distante de la lesión
INTRODUCTION: to present our experience in epilepsy surgery with intraoperative electrocorticography in 19 patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD: retrospective study based on clinical records of patients with epilepsy operated on between December 1997 and November 2013 in Sanatorio Allende of Córdoba. In this series there were 14 patients younger than 20 years. Included: 10 (52,6) cortical displeases, 6 (31,5%) tumours, 2 cicatricial gliosis, and 1 cavernoma. The localization was temporal in 4 (21%), and extratemporal in 15 (79%). Thirteen (67,3%) patients had medically intractable epilepsies. RESULTS: in terms of epilepsy, surgical treatment with intraoperative electrocorticography was satisfactory. At the present: 14(73%) are free of seizures; only 4 had abnormal EEG and go on with anticonvulsive medication. Five patients to remain with epilepsy, only 2 of them had frequent crisis and required three anticonvulsive drugs. CONCLUSION: the intraoperative electrocorticography permitted to identify the epileptogenic area with accuracy. This area may be situated adjacent or distant to the primary lesion
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Humans , Epilepsy , Drug Resistant Epilepsy , Electrocorticography , Gliosis , NeoplasmsABSTRACT
PURPOSE: We investigated the localizing and lateralizing values of auras in patients with lesional partial epilepsy on an outpatient basis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 276 subjects were retrospectively selected for this study if they had a unilateral single lobar lesion based on magnetic resonance image (MRI) results, and their scalp electroencephalography (EEG) findings were not discordant with the MRI-defined lobar localization and lateralization. According to the lesion locations, subjects were considered as having mesial temporal (MTLE), lateral temporal (LTLE), frontal (FLE), parietal (PLE), or occipital (OLE) lobe epilepsies. Auras were classified into 13 categories. RESULTS: A hundred and seventy-six subjects (63.8%) had experienced at least one aura. FLE subjects had the fewest number of auras. Epigastric and psychic auras were frequent among MTLE subjects, while visual auras were common in those with PLE and OLE. Somatosensory auras and whole body sensations were more frequent in the subjects with PLE than those without. Autonomic auras were more common in MTLE subjects than in LTLE subjects. Dysphasic auras were more frequently found in left-sided epilepsies. Five pairs of aura categories showed concurrent tendencies, which were the epigastric and autonomic auras, autonomic and emotional auras, visual and vestibular auras, auditory and vestibular auras, and whole-body sensation and auditory auras. Autonomic and emotional auras had a concurrent tendency in left-sided epilepsies, but not in right-sided epilepsies. CONCLUSION: Our results support the previously known localizing value of auras, and suggest that dysphasic auras and the association of emotional and autonomic auras may have a lateralizing value.