PMID- 12614407
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030602
LR  - 20190813
IS  - 0013-9580 (Print)
IS  - 0013-9580 (Linking)
VI  - 44
IP  - 3
DP  - 2003 Mar
TI  - Successful neurosurgical treatment of childhood complex partial status 
      epilepticus with focal resection.
PG  - 468-71
AB  - The treatment of complex partial status epilepticus continues to be 
      controversial, especially with regard to the intensity of the treatment. Medical 
      therapy and drug-induced coma are sometimes required. Rarely this may not be 
      effective. A healthy 4-year old girl was first seen in complex partial status 
      epilepticus. She had a 1-year history of cryptogenic partial-onset seizures. 
      Detailed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies were normal. Her course was 
      refractory to multiple medical therapies and multiple subpial transection (MST). 
      An urgent epilepsy surgery evaluation resulted in a focal cortical resection 
      being performed over the right mesial parietal region with resultant seizure 
      freedom and no significant neurologic deficit 2 years later. This patient 
      illustrates the need to consider occult focal cortical dysplasia as a cause of 
      nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) in children, and if it is not responsive 
      to medical management, the utility of performing an urgent epilepsy surgery 
      evaluation.
FAU - Ng, Yu-tze
AU  - Ng YT
AD  - Texas Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Department of Neurology, University of 
      Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA. y2ng@chw.edu
FAU - Kim, Howard L
AU  - Kim HL
FAU - Wheless, James W
AU  - Wheless JW
LA  - eng
PT  - Case Reports
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Epilepsia
JT  - Epilepsia
JID - 2983306R
SB  - IM
MH  - Brain Mapping
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Electrodes, Implanted
MH  - Electroencephalography/methods/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Functional Laterality/physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Magnetoencephalography
MH  - Nervous System Malformations/diagnosis/surgery
MH  - Parietal Lobe/abnormalities/*surgery
MH  - Status Epilepticus/diagnosis/*surgery
MH  - Treatment Outcome
EDAT- 2003/03/05 04:00
MHDA- 2003/06/05 05:00
CRDT- 2003/03/05 04:00
PHST- 2003/03/05 04:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/06/05 05:00 [medline]
PHST- 2003/03/05 04:00 [entrez]
AID - epi40302 [pii]
AID - 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.40302.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Epilepsia. 2003 Mar;44(3):468-71. doi: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2003.40302.x.