• Department of Neurosurgery, Wuhan Brain Hospital & Changhang General Hospital, Wuhan 430010, China;
WANG Huanming, Email: 1808381741@qq.com
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Objective To explore the clinical features and surgical treatment effects of cavernous angioma in the temporal lobe secondary to epilepsy.Method 38 cases of patients with cavernous angioma in the temporal lobe secondary to epilepsy were collected in Department of Neurosurgery of Wuhan Brain Hospital from Jan. 2010 to Jan. 2019. There were 17 males and 21 females, their age range from 8 to 57 years, average (40.05±14.64) years. Their illness duration ranged from 1 to 10 years, average (1.25±2.19) years. The clinical manifestations showed complex partial seizure in 7 cases, partial-secondary-generalized seizure in 8 cases, and generalized tonic-clonic seizure in 23 cases. All the patients underwent CT/MRI and long-term VEEG monitoring examination. Based on their results of clinical manifestations, combined with CT/MRI and VEEG results, all the patients underwent microsurgical cavernous angioma resection under the guidance of ECoG. If necessary, anterior temporal lobectomy or coortical coagulation should be added. The surgical effect were evaluated by Engel levels by followed up.Results The postoperative pathology confirmed the diagnosis of cavernous angioma. The follow-up of 1 ~ 9 years showed the seizure disappeared in 36 cases, and bad effect in 2 cases. The total surgical effect rate was 94.74% (36/38).Conclusions To the patients of cavernous angioma in the temporal lobe secondary to epilepsy, the glial scar and hemosiderin sedimentary zone should be resected after resecting the lesion, and if necessary, anterior temporal lobectomy or cortical coagulation could be added. If it is difficult to locate the lesion, neuronavigation and ultrasound can be used, and the postoperative curative result is satisfactory.

Citation: WANG Huanming, HU Fei, CHEN Jun, XIONG Yubo, YANG Congyang, CHEN Yang, TU Shengxu. Surgical treatment for the cavernous angioma in the temporal lobe secondary to epilepsy. Journal of Epilepsy, 2020, 6(3): 205-209. doi: 10.7507/2096-0247.20200036 Copy

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