Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 13-15 , March 2010

A Case of Symptomatic, Lesional Epilepsy (Hypothalamic Hamartoma) Masquerading as a Generalized Epilepsy With Lennox—Gastaut Syndrome

  • Yu-Tze Ng, MD, FRACP

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Yu-Tze Ng, MD, FRACP, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, 500 West Thomas #400, Phoenix, AZ 85013

References 

  1. Wheless JW, Constantinou JEC. Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Pediatr Neurol. 1997;17:203–211
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  3. Kerrigan JF, Ng YT, Chung S, et al. The hypothalamic hamartoma: A model of subcortical epileptogenesis and encephalopathy. Semin Pediatr Neurol. 2005;12:119–131
  4. Ng YT, Rekate HL, Prenger EC, et al. Endoscopic resection of hypothalamic hamartomas for refractory symptomatic epilepsy. Neurology. 2008;70:1543–1548
  5. Ng YT, Rekate HL, Prenger EC, et al. Transcallosal resection of hypothalamic hamartoma for intractable epilepsy. Epilepsia. 2006;47:1192–1202
  6. Ng YT, Kerrigan JF, Rekate HL. Neurosurgical treatment of status epilepticus. J Neurosurg. 2006;105:378–381

PII: S1071-9091(10)00003-3

doi: 10.1016/j.spen.2010.01.002

Seminars in Pediatric Neurology
Volume 17, Issue 1 , Pages 13-15 , March 2010

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