%0 Journal Article
%T Mesial temporal sclerosis in children
%A Brand£¿o
%A Eliana Maria Domingues
%A Manreza
%A Maria Luiza Giraldes de
%J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
%D 2007
%I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO
%R 10.1590/S0004-282X2007000600004
%X mesial temporal sclerosis is the most frequent cause of drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy but has a satisfactory response to surgery, and is considered infrequent in children. objective: to evaluate the clinical, electrographic and radiological spectrum of the disease in children. method: retrospective study by review of charts of 44 children with a diagnosis of mesial temporal sclerosis on magnetic resonance imaging, attended at the "hospital das cl¨ªnicas" of the university of s£¿o paulo faculty of medicine. results: febrile seizure was identified in the history of 54% of the patients. injuries at the left side predominated in patients with schooling difficulties (p=0.049), in those with the first seizures between six months and five years (p=0.021) and in those with complex febrile seizure (p=0.032). thirteen patients were submitted to surgery and of these, eight remained without seizures. conclusion: febrile seizure may be related in a more direct way to the presence of left-side mesial temporal sclerosis.
%K temporal lobe epilepsy
%K child
%K adolescent
%K sclerosis
%K hippocampus.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X2007000600004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en