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Magnetic resonance imaging findings in newly diagnosed epileptic children

OBJECTIVES: Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurologic disorders in childhood and it affects 0.5-1% of children. The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence and types of structural abnormalities in the epileptic children. METHODS: The study was performed in Near East Universi...

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Autores principales: Dirik, Mehmet Alp, Sanlidag, Burcin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Professional Medical Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805420
http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.342.14807
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description OBJECTIVES: Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurologic disorders in childhood and it affects 0.5-1% of children. The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence and types of structural abnormalities in the epileptic children. METHODS: The study was performed in Near East University and Dr. Suat Gunsel University in North Cyprus. It was conducted at pediatric neurology outpatient clinic of the hospital. The records of 1 to 18 years old epileptic children in whom Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) performed within 6 months after diagnosis were enrolled to the study between the dates of October 2011 and June 2017. RESULTS: Among 220 children; 131 (59.55%) had no abnormality and 89 (45.45%) had at least one abnormality in the MRI. Most commonly documented lesions were generally encephalomalacia, hydrocephaly and brain atrophy with a percent of 5.90 (13 cases), 5.45 (12 cases) and 4.55 (10 cases) respectively. Sixty nine (31.06%) of the patients had one abnormality whereas 20 (9.09%) had two or more lesion. CONCLUSION: Abnormality in MRI examination in newly diagnosed epileptic children was high. These high rates may be due to enrollment of children with new emerging epilepsy on a chronical neurologic disorder. Additionally 20 (9.09%) of patients had a concomitant lesion. Secondary lesions were detected in cases with corpus callosum abnormality, atrophy, encephalomalacia and hydrocephaly. Primarily formed lesions are unknown; further studies are needed to confirm these findings.
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spelling pubmed-59543912018-05-25 Magnetic resonance imaging findings in newly diagnosed epileptic children Dirik, Mehmet Alp Sanlidag, Burcin Pak J Med Sci Original Article OBJECTIVES: Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurologic disorders in childhood and it affects 0.5-1% of children. The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence and types of structural abnormalities in the epileptic children. METHODS: The study was performed in Near East University and Dr. Suat Gunsel University in North Cyprus. It was conducted at pediatric neurology outpatient clinic of the hospital. The records of 1 to 18 years old epileptic children in whom Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) performed within 6 months after diagnosis were enrolled to the study between the dates of October 2011 and June 2017. RESULTS: Among 220 children; 131 (59.55%) had no abnormality and 89 (45.45%) had at least one abnormality in the MRI. Most commonly documented lesions were generally encephalomalacia, hydrocephaly and brain atrophy with a percent of 5.90 (13 cases), 5.45 (12 cases) and 4.55 (10 cases) respectively. Sixty nine (31.06%) of the patients had one abnormality whereas 20 (9.09%) had two or more lesion. CONCLUSION: Abnormality in MRI examination in newly diagnosed epileptic children was high. These high rates may be due to enrollment of children with new emerging epilepsy on a chronical neurologic disorder. Additionally 20 (9.09%) of patients had a concomitant lesion. Secondary lesions were detected in cases with corpus callosum abnormality, atrophy, encephalomalacia and hydrocephaly. Primarily formed lesions are unknown; further studies are needed to confirm these findings. Professional Medical Publications 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5954391/ /pubmed/29805420 http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.342.14807 Text en Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Magnetic resonance imaging findings in newly diagnosed epileptic children
title Magnetic resonance imaging findings in newly diagnosed epileptic children
title_full Magnetic resonance imaging findings in newly diagnosed epileptic children
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title_full_unstemmed Magnetic resonance imaging findings in newly diagnosed epileptic children
title_short Magnetic resonance imaging findings in newly diagnosed epileptic children
title_sort magnetic resonance imaging findings in newly diagnosed epileptic children
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805420
http://dx.doi.org/10.12669/pjms.342.14807
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