1. MRI abnormalities following repeated and incoming seizures
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Paolo Ragonese, Ornella Daniele, Barbara Palmeri, Marco D'Amelio, Simona Talamanca, Valeria Terruso, Paolo Aridon, Palmeri, B, Talamanca, S, Ragonese, P, Aridon, P, Daniele, O, Terruso, V, and D'Amelio, M
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Long lasting ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Clinical Neurology ,Status epilepticus ,MRI abnormality ,Epilepsy ,Neuroimaging ,Recurrence ,Seizures ,Medicine ,Humans ,Brain magnetic resonance imaging ,business.industry ,Electroencephalography ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Seizure ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Neurology ,Etiology ,Settore MED/26 - Neurologia ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Tomography ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Brain neoplasm ,Epilepsy, MRI - Abstract
Neuroimaging, an important diagnostic tool frequently used in the evaluation of patients with epilepsy, has mainly the aim to identify structural abnormalities needing a treatment and to contribute to the definition of the aetiology. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in epilepsy is more sensitive than computerized tomography (CT) scan for detecting abnormalities. Status epilepticus (SE) and repeated incoming seizures may determine extensive and transient or long lasting pronounced MRI changes. We describe a case of a 41-year-old woman with a history of brain neoplasm, whose contrast-enhanced MRI images following repeated and incoming seizures were characterized either by reversible and irreversible abnormalities.
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- 2010