Brain Volume Reduction with Intractable Epilepsy

Abstract

Cerebral, cerebellar, and hippocampal volumes were measured by quantitative magnetic resonance imaging on 112 children, ages 4-18 years, with epilepsy syndromes, determined by video-EEG telemetry, at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick; St Vincent’s Hospital, Victoria; and New Children’s Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.

Keywords

• hippocampal volumes
• frontal lobe epilepsy
• intractable seizures