Erschienen in:
01.09.2014 | Letter to the Editor
Mammillary body hamartoma in a patient with pseudotemporal lobe seizures
verfasst von:
F. Irsel Tezer, Kader K. Oguz, Serap Saygi
Erschienen in:
Acta Neurologica Belgica
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Ausgabe 3/2014
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Excerpt
Hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) are uncommon tumors arising from the tuber cinereum and inferior hypothalamus. Classically, the clinical triad of gelastic seizures, developmental delay, and precocious puberty was reported in children [
1]. Yet, there is variability in seizure semiology among adult patients with HHs [
2]. They tend to have non-gelastic seizures including complex partial seizures (CPS) with or without secondary generalization and tonic–clonic seizures, and they are mostly resistant to antiepileptic drugs [
2,
4]. In this case report, we present a patient with CPS and a very rare HHs originating in the left mammillary body. …