, 2016 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe a series of patients with ictal crying to estimate its occurrence and characterize the clinical features and the underlying etiology.
Asadi-Pooya, Ali Akbar +2 more
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Interictal Spike EEG Source Analysis in Hypothalamic Hamartoma Epilepsy [PDF]
, 2002 Objective: The epilepsy associated with the hypothalamic hamartomas constitutes a syndrome with peculiar seizures, usually refractory to medical therapy, mild cognitive delay, behavioural problems and multifocal spike activity in the scalp ...
Calado, E +4 more
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Neurologia medico-chirurgica, 2005 The incidence of hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) has increased since the introduction of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The etiology of this anomaly and the pathogenesis of its peculiar symptoms remain unclear, but recent electrophysiological, neuroimaging, and clinical studies have yielded important data. Categorizing HHs by the degree of hypothalamic
Kazunori, Arita +4 more
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Analysis of the EEG Dynamics of Epileptic Activity in Gelastic Seizures Using Decomposition in Independent Components [PDF]
, 2006 Objective: Gelastic seizures are a frequent and well established manifestation of the epilepsy associated with hypothalamic hamartomas. The scalp EEG recordings very seldom demonstrate clear spike activity and the information about the ictal epilepsy ...
Dias, AI, Leal, A, Vieira, JP
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Central precocious puberty in a 3 year-old girl with Phenylketonuria: a rare association? [PDF]
, 2014 Background Central precocious puberty (CPP) and phenylketonuria (PKU) are two rare conditions, the latter being the rarer. To date, only one case featuring both these conditions has been reported, and hyperphenylalaninemia was assumed triggering CPP.
Donaldson, Malcolm +3 more
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Ecstatic and gelastic seizures relate to the hypothalamus
Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, 2020 Ecstatic seizures constitute a rare form of epilepsy, and the semiology is diverse. Previously, brain areas including the temporal lobe and the insula have been identified to be involved in clinical expression. The aim of this report is to review changes
Kenney Roy Roodakker +6 more
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Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: A State of the Art Review. [PDF]
, 2017 Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) is a severe age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy usually with onset between 1 and 8 years of age. Functional neuroimaging studies recently introduced the concept of Lennox-Gastaut as "secondary network epilepsy" resulting ...
Mastrangelo, Mario
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Surgical excision of hypothalamic hamartoma in a twenty months old boy with precocious puberty
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2011 A twenty months old boy presented to our department with true precocious puberty due to hypothalamic hamartoma. Total surgical excision of pedunculated hypothalamic hamartoma was done successfully by the pterional trans-sylvian approach as he could not ...
Rajesh K Ghanta +3 more
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Repeat stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation in patients with hypothalamic hamartoma and seizure recurrence. [PDF]
Epilepsia Open, 2020 Shirozu H, Masuda H, Kameyama S.
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Different Electroclinical Manifestations of the Epilepsy Associated with Hamartomas Connecting to the Middle or Posterior Hypothalamus [PDF]
, 2003 PURPOSE: The epilepsy associated with hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) has typical clinical, electrophysiologic, and behavioral manifestations refractory to drug therapy and with unfavorable evolution.
Leal, A +3 more
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