Successful surgery in lesional epilepsy secondary to posterior quandrant ulegyria coexisting with benign childhood focal epilepsy: A case report.

Clin Neurol Neurosurg

Epilepsy Research Center, Department of Neuromedicine, Affiliated Chenggong Hospital, Xiamen University, Affiliated Clinical Teaching Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Xiamen 361004, China. Electronic address:

Published: October 2016

The present study reports, for the first time, a rare case of benign childhood focal epilepsy(BCFE) coexisting with lesional epilepsy secondary to parietooccipital ulegyria. The patient underwent right parietooccipital lobe disconnection plus tailored resection of temporooccipitoparietal junction cortex under electrocorticography (ECoG) monitoring. Post-operatively, there was no impairment of neurological function and the patient only experiences a few breakthrough benign partial seizures during sleep.

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