EVALUATION OF SEIZURES IN THE ADULT
- 1 January 1954
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 71 (1) , 101-104
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1954.02320370103008
Abstract
THE GENERALIZATION that every adult patient who develops a seizure disorder should have an air encephalogram is commonly accepted.* Yet the search for expanding intracranial lesions by this method is frequently disappointing, and the procedure is not without risk. Seizures may be an initial symptom in 20 to 35% of patients with intracranial tumor. On the other hand, among large groups of patients with seizure disorders the number of brain tumors demonstrable by air encephalography varied from 1%, in the younger patients, to 10%, in the older patients.7Because of the serious implication of seizures developing in the adult, it is important that diagnostic methods be sufficiently accurate to indicate the presence or absence of intracranial mass lesions and that these methods be put in proper perspective with regard to their usefulness and benignancy. PRESENT INVESTIGATION All patients who have been admitted because of seizures to the Second (Cornell)Keywords
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