Evolution of Gelastic Epilepsy with Hypothalamic Hamartoma

Abstract

The patterns of clinical presentation, evolution of the epilepsy, and electoclinical diagnostic features of hypothalamic hamartoma (HH) in 19 patients (8 children and 11 adults), seen between 1991 and 2001, were evaluated at Kings College Hospital and the Institute of Epileptology, London, UK.

Keywords

• hypothalamic hamartoma
• precocious puberty
• parahypothalamic hamartomas