Publications by authors named "E Dilling-Ostrowska"

Epilepsy may be the earliest and the sole clinical manifestation of brain tumours. Different studies present epileptic seizures as the first symptom of a brain tumours in adults in approximately 30-40% of cases and in children from 1-10%. In order to evaluate the incidence of epileptic seizures in children versus adults with brain tumors, we investigated the group of 113 children and 578 adults who were hospitalized at the Departments of Neurology and Developmental Neurology between 1990-1999.

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Background: The present study was performed in order to determine the most common neurological signs of arachnoid cysts (AC) in a pediatric population and to evaluate if there is a correlation between the localization of the cyst and the clinical characteristics.

Material/methods: Forty-five AC patients were studied, aged 2-17 years, who were consecutively referred to the Department of Developmental Neurology at the Medical University of Gdańsk between 1990-2001.

Results: We found that AC has a strong predilection to the temporal regions and was associated with epilepsy in 31% of the cases.

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We investigated 100 children with migraine admitted to the Developmental Neurology Department, Medical University of Gdańsk between 1988-1997. The diagnosis was made on IHS Criteria (1988). There were 53 children with migraine with aura and 47--without aura.

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During a period of 30 years 21 children with sciatic pains were treated at the Developmental Age Neurology, Medical Academy in Gdańsk. The aetiological factors and clinical manifestations were analysed. Nucleus pulposus prolapse was diagnosed in 5 children, in 9 cases neoplasms were found (in 3 cases malignant tumours of the sacral bone, intraspinal tumours in 6 cases); in 4 cases obliterative intraspinal arachnitis, and in 3 cases other causes were diagnosed.

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