Causes, presentation and outcome of lesional adult-onset mediotemporal lobe epilepsy

Bettina M Soeder (1) , Ulrike Gleissner (1) , Horst Urbach (1) , Hans Clusmann (1) , Christian E Elger (2) , Angela Vincent (3) , Christian G Bien (1)

1 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
2 Department of Epileptology
3 Neurosciences Group, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford

Mediotemporal lobe (MTL) epilepsy (MTLE) is particularly frequent among human localization-related epilepsies. MTLE usually starts before adulthood and is most frequently associated with hippocampal sclerosis (HS). For lesional adult-onset MTLE, aetiologies, disease courses, and outcomes are unknown.

Mots clés: EPILEPSY; LIMBIC SYSTEM

Bettina M Soeder, Ulrike Gleissner, Horst Urbach, Hans Clusmann, Christian E Elger, et al.. Causes, presentation and outcome of lesional adult-onset mediotemporal lobe epilepsy. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 2009, 80 (8), pp.894. ⟨10.1136/jnnp.2008.165860⟩. ⟨hal-00552737⟩