1. Surgical treatment for musicogenic epilepsy.
- Author
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Duanyu N, Yongjie L, Guojun Z, Lixin C, and Liang Q
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- Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Arteries anatomy & histology, Cerebral Arteries surgery, Craniotomy, Electroencephalography, Epilepsy, Reflex pathology, Humans, Intraoperative Complications physiopathology, Intraoperative Complications prevention & control, Male, Monitoring, Intraoperative, Music, Postoperative Complications physiopathology, Postoperative Complications prevention & control, Preoperative Care, Temporal Lobe pathology, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon, Treatment Outcome, Epilepsy, Reflex physiopathology, Epilepsy, Reflex surgery, Neurosurgical Procedures methods, Temporal Lobe physiopathology, Temporal Lobe surgery
- Abstract
We report a patient with medically intractable musicogenic epilepsy (ME) who was treated with surgery. Using the non-invasive methods of ictal and interictal electroencephalography (EEG), MRI, interictal single photon emission computed tomography and clinical manifestations, we first localized the musicogenic seizures (MS). The ictal onset zone was then further localized using intracranial EEG to the middle part of the left superior temporal gyrus. Surgical resection of the epileptogenic zone was then performed. The patient had two seizures within 2 weeks post-operatively, but has then had no seizures during the following year (Engel class II). The results suggest that patients who have medically intractable ME combined with unilateral ictal onset zones should be considered for the surgical treatment of epilepsy., (Copyright (c) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
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- 2010
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