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The authors describe a seventeen-years-old girl suffering from partial seizures with complex symptomatology. The neuroradiological studies demonstrated a slow-growing glial tumour seated deeply in the right temporo-occipital region. Scalp EEG demonstrated a bilateral asynchronous temporal focus without definite lateralization. Chronic depth electrodes recording allowed identification of a primary epileptogenic area in the right rhinencephalic structures. Radiofrequency lesions performed in the right amygdala and anterior third of right Ammon's horn abolished the seizures at ten months follow up.
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Marossero, F., Ettorre, G., Franzini, A. et al. Chronic depth electrodes study of one case of bitemporal epilepsy due to glial tumour. Some physiopathological considerations. Acta neurochir 45, 123–131 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01774387
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