New-Onset Postoperative Seizures in Patients With Diffuse Gliomas: A Risk Assessment Analysis

Clinicopathological factors predictive of postoperative seizures in patients with gliomas

PURPOSE Epilepsy is one of the most common manifestations in gliomas and has a severe effect on the life expectancy and quality of life of patients. The aim of our study was to assess the potential connections between clinicopathological factors and postoperative seizure. METHOD We retrospectively investigated a group of 147 Chinese high-grade glioma (HGG) patients with preoperative seizure t...

Teacher assessment of behaviour in children with new-onset seizures

RATIONALE Recent data suggest that children with new-onset seizures may be at increased risk for behaviour problems. Teachers are an excellent source of data about such problems. They do not have the potential bias that a parent worried about a new onset of seizures might have and, furthermore, they are accustomed to comparing performance of children and work in an environment in which the beha...

Epileptic seizures in diffuse low-grade gliomas in adults.

Diffuse low-grade gliomas are highly epileptogenic brain tumours. We aimed to explore the natural course of epileptic seizures, their predictors and the prognostic significance of their occurrence in adult patients harbouring a diffuse low-grade glioma. An observational retrospective multicentre study examined 1509 patients with diffuse low-grade gliomas to identify mutual interactions between ...

Seizures in a patient with diffuse scleroderma.

Accepted 19 April 1995 A 31-year-old black woman, with a nine-year history of systemic sclerosis, was admitted with an episode of jerking movements of both upper extremities, followed by unresponsiveness. In the emergency room, she had an episode of generalised tonic-clonic seizures. Her husband stated that she had never had seizures prior to these two episodes and had no headaches, nausea, vom...

New-Onset Seizures in an Infant.