Epilepsy caused by vascular insufficiency as a result of a malformation in a child
Maiuri, F.; Gangemi, M.; Maiuri, L.; Cirillo, S.
Rivista di Neurologia 53(3): 186-192
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-6344 PMID: 6414071 Document Number: 207292
The Authors report a case of a 7-year-old boy with focal epileptic seizures; cerebral panangiography revealed a "coiling" of the right internal carotid artery, a scarcely visualized right posterior cerebral artery, and a diffuse hypovascularisation of the right cerebral hemisphere. They emphasize the possible relation between the vascular insufficiency and the epileptic seizures and they point out the possible role of congenital vasal malformations, as coiling and hypoplasia, in the origin of epilepsy in infancy.