Disseminating Heterotopia

Periventricular heterotopia.

A 34-year-old epilepsy woman had first seizure when aged 14. Seizure patterns are mainly simple partial type, presented by a sense of air within chest wall rising to head or focal twitching of right hand. She also had generalized tonicclonic seizures before. In recent four years, she did not experience generalized seizure although simple partial seizures were noted average four to five times a ...

Heterotopia and structuralism

The concept of heterotopia was introduced and immediately abandoned by Michel Foucault in 1966 ^ 67, but it quickly diffused across human geography, urban theory, and cultural studies during the 1990s. Notwithstanding the deserved impact of Foucault's overall work on these fields, there are some conceptual problems with the heterotopia concept. While the desire for a single term to probe spatia...

Sub-ependymal heterotopia.

A 27 year old female presented in emergency department with simple partial seizures involving right side of face and right upper limb. She had history of recurrent brief episodes of such seizures since last 6 months. Each episode was followed by localized paresis of involved region lasting for few hours and then recovered. She was on antiepileptic drugs as prescribed by local practitioners. On ...

Gastric Heterotopia Manifesting

We report the case of a 17-year-old female with symptoms of intermittent small bowel obstruction. Computed tomography scan of the abdomen revealed an intussusception. The patient underwent a laparoscopic-assisted resection of the mass, which proved to be gastric heterotopia of the jejunum. We report on the case, discuss the surgical approach, and review the pertinent literature. Baystate Childr...

Intracardiac endodermal heterotopia.