Code | Age and gender | Clinical history in addition to TLE | Duration | Seizure type | Diagnosis | No. of cells |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A1 | 50 f | Perinatal hypoxia | 48 | SGS, CPS | AHS | 4 |
A2 | 19 f | Complicated febrile seizure | 14 | SPS, CPS, SGS | AHS | 1 |
A3 | 23 f | — | 23 | SPS, CPS | AHS | 3 |
A4 | 42 m | Febrile seizures, meningitis | 35 | SPS, CPS | AHS | 3 |
A5 | 19 f | Migraine, febrile seizures, mild hemiparesis | 5 | CPS, SGS | AHS | 4 |
A6 | 32 f | Febrile seizures | 32 | SPS, CPS, SGS | AHS | 4 |
A7 | 38 f | — | 5 | CPS, SGS | AHS | 1 |
A8 | 42 m | IDDM, diabetic PNP, paranoid psychosis | 34 | CPS, SGS | AHS | 1 |
A9 | 41 m | — | 11 | SPS, CPS, SGS | AHS | 6 |
A10 | 38 m | Meningitis with febrile seizure | 38 | SPS, CPS, SGS | AHS | 1 |
A11 | 32 m | Febrile seizure | 24 | CPS, SGS | AHS | 4 |
A12 | 32 f | — | 25 | CPS, SGS | AHS | 2 |
A13 | 22 f | Tuberculous meningitis | 14 | SPS, CPS, SGS | Postencephalitic scars | 3 |
A14 | 42 f | — | 8 | CPS | AHS | 5 |
A15 | 28 m | Multiple seizure disorders | 9 | CPS | Mild HS, cryptogenic | 3 |
A16 | 52 f | Schizophrenia, psychosis | 52 | CPS | AHS | 5 |
A17 | 49 f | — | 43 | CPS | AHS | 2 |
L1 | 33 m | Pilocytic Astrocy-toma (WHO grade 1) | 25 | CPS, GMS | Multiple GNH | 1 |
L2 | 37 m | Contusio cerebri (17 yrs) | 19 | CPS | Multiple glial scars | 1 |
L3 | 10 m | One-sided spastic hemiparesis | 2 | CPS, SGS | Polymicro-gyria | 1 |
L4 | 33 f | Partly resected angioma left temporal (22 y) | 11 | CPS | Arterio-venous malformation | 3 |
L5 | 32 f | Proencephalic cyst, iron deficiency anaemia, hemiparesis | 29 | CPS, SGS | Glial scars | 2 |
L6 | 42 m | Perinatal hypoxia | 27 | SPS, CPS, SGS | GNH | 2 |
L7 | 25 f | — | 14 | SPS, CPS, SGS | Ganglio-glioma | 1 |
L8 | 49 f | — | 24 | SPS, CPS | Dysembryoblastic neuroepithelial tumor | 3 |
m, Male; f, female; IDDM, insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; PNP, polyneuropathy; SPS, simple partial seizures; CPS, complex partial seizures; SGS, secondary generalized seizures; AHS, Ammon's horn sclerosis; GNH, glio-neuronal hamartia; HS, hippocampal sclerosis; TLE, temporal lobe epilepsy.
All subjects were adults and suffered from medically intractable epilepsy. Patients were grouped into two classes according to histopathological diagnosis of either Ammon's horn sclerosis (A) or a lesion (L) in the temporal lobe but not in the hippocampus proper.