Teaching NeuroImages: Mesial temporal sclerosis after a prolonged unprovoked seizure in an infant
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Teaching NeuroImages: mesial temporal sclerosis after a prolonged unprovoked seizure in an infant.
At age 15 months, this previously healthy girl presented with an unprovoked seizure with right-sided clonic movements and facial twitching for 8 minutes. Serial MRIs revealed evolution from diffusion-weighted changes suggestive of edema to left hippocampal hyperintensity on T2 images and subsequently atrophy suggestive of mesial temporal sclerosis (MTS)1 (figures 1 and 2). After seizure freedom...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e318236ef34