Chronic encephalitis and temporal lobe epilepsy: A variant of Rasmussen's syndrome?

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Hennessy, MJ
Koutroumanidis, M
Dean, AF
Jarosz, J
Elwes, RDC
Binnie, CD
Polkey, CE
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[1] Kings Coll London Hosp, Dept Clin Neurophysiol, London SE5 9RS, England
[2] Kings Coll London Hosp, Dept Neuroimaging, London SE5 9RS, England
[3] Kings Coll London Hosp, Dept Neurosurg, London SE5 9RS, England
[4] Inst Psychiat, Dept Neuropathol, London SE5 8AF, England
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10.1212/WNL.56.5.678
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R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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The authors report two adult patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy and pathologic features consistent with Rasmussen's encephalitis. Although seizures persisted after temporal lobe surgery no progressive cognitive or neurologic deficit has emerged. Prominent auditory auras in each suggested a persisting epileptogenic focus in the superior temporal gyrus. The current findings expand the clinical spectrum of Rasmussen's encephalitis and suggest that chronic nonprogressive encephalitis may serve as the pathologic substrate of medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy.
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