Bermea - Mendoza JH, Onofre – Castillo JJ, Valero - Castillo R, Putz - Botello MD, Franco – Hervert A, De Alba – Guevara CA

Language: Spanish
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Page: 53-58
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ABSTRACT

Introduction. There are tools to quantitatively study the volume of the hippocampus. Such study would help to complement, more objectively and precisely, structural alterations that may be associated with the data obtained from electroencephalograms.
Material and methods. Seventeen patients, between 3 and 11 years of age, with diagnosis of first-time seizures and from whom magnetic resonance studies and electroencephalograms were available, were analyzed.
Results:.The left temporal lobe was involved in 3 patients, of whom 1 (5%) was found to be normal in the magnetic resonance and 2 (11%) abnormal with diagnoses of venous angioma and cortical atrophy. No significant difference was found between the two groups for the results obtained with resonance (Student p value: 0.6) and those obtained with electroencephalography (Student p value: 0.3). Electroencephalographic alterations in the frontal region were observed in 8 (47%) patients, 4 (23%) predominantly left, 1 (5%) right, and 3 (17%) bilateral; of those, in 5 (29%) cases the resonance was normal, one had left temporal atrophy, one diagnosis of meningitis, and one more of medulloblastoma.
Discussion. In the remaining 3 (17%) patients we found generalized cortical involvement in the electroencephalogram, but resonance found one normal study, one suprasellar ependymoma, and one patient with agenesis of the corpus callosum.
Conclusion. it was not possible to show a statistically significant value that could relate the results obtained by magnetic resonance with those obtained by electroencephalography.

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