Published March 1994 | Version v1
Journal article

99mTc-HMPAO Brain SPECT in Seizure Disorder: Comparison Brain SPECT, MRI / CT and EEG

  • 1. Kyunghee University Hospital, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul (Korea, Republic of)

Description

We studied 115 patients with seizure who had been performed brain SPECT brain MRI of CT and EEG. To evaluate the pattern of brain SPECT in seizure patients 28 of them had secondary epilepsies, 87 had primary epilepsies. In primary epilepsies, 42 were generalized seizure and 45 were partial seizure. The causes of secondary epilepsies were congenital malformation, cerebromalacia, cerebral infarction ultiple sclerosis, AV-malformation. granuloma and etc, in order. In 28 secondary epilepsies, 25 of them, brain SPECT lesions was concordant with MRI or CT lesions. 3 were disconcordant. The brain SPECT findings of generalized seizure were normal in 22 patients, diffuse irregular decreased perfusion in 8, decreased in frontal cortex in 4. temporal in 5 and frontotemporal in 3. In 45 partial seizure, 19 brain SPECT were concordant with EEG (42.4%).

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Journal Title
Journal of the Korean Radiological Society
Journal Volume
28
Journal Issue
1
Series
21 refs, 1 fig, 5 tabs
Journal Page Range
p. 17-21
ISSN
1738-2637