Adult-onset refractory epilepsy with hypothalamic hamartoma and no gelastic seizures successfully treated by stereotactic thermocoagulation: A case report

نویسندگان

  • Daichi Sone
  • Takanobu Kaido
  • Masako Watanabe
  • Yoshiko Murata
  • Go Taniguchi
  • Taisuke Otsuki
چکیده

Daichi Sone *, Takanobu Kaido , Masako Watanabe , Yoshiko Murata , Go Taniguchi , Taisuke Otsuki c Department of Psychiatry, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan 4-1-1 Ogawa-Higashi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8551, Japan Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan Department of Neurosurgery, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo, Japan Department of Neuropsychiatry, the University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Seizure

دوره 37  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016