An unusual case of focal epilepsy
| Autor: | B M A C Balasuriya, Sunil Perera, Jagath C Wijesekara |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Cerebellum Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Infarction Diagnosis Differential Heart Neoplasms Epilepsy Aneurysm medicine Humans cardiovascular diseases Neoplasm Metastasis Brain Neoplasms business.industry Myxoma General Medicine medicine.disease Spinal cord medicine.anatomical_structure cardiovascular system Female Epilepsies Partial Brainstem Left Atrial Myxoma business |
| Zdroj: | Ceylon Medical Journal. 50:30 |
| ISSN: | 2386-1274 0009-0875 |
| DOI: | 10.4038/cmj.v50i1.1589 |
| Popis: | Primary tumours of the heart are rare. Three fourths of these tumours are benign, and nearly half of these benign tumours are myxomas. Embolisation from left atrial myxoma to the cerebral hemispheres, brainstem, cerebellum, retina and spinal cord has been recorded. Embolisation may take the form of a transient ischaemic attack or infarction. We discuss here a case of multiple cerebral metastatic deposits of a cardiac myxoma, which presented as focal fits several years after resection of the primary tumour. Key words: Cerebral aneurysm, embolisation, myxoma DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v50i1.1589 Ceylon Medical Journal Vol.50(1) 2005 pp30-31 |
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