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This is a hueueuge topic. It is covered its own article and includes a general discussion of dementia. | This is a hueueuge topic. It is covered its own article and includes a general discussion of dementia. | ||
==Epilepsy== | |||
===General=== | |||
*Seizure that are "idiopathic", i.e. no brain tumour, no mass lesion, no brain injury. | |||
*Most common form: ''temporal lobe epilepsy''.<ref>URL: [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/342150-overview http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/342150-overview]. Accessed on: 20 November 2010.</ref> | |||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features:<ref>MUN. 15 November 2010.</ref> | |||
*Mesial temporal sclerosis = scarring of the medial temporal lobe. | |||
**Involves: hippocampus, parahippocampal gyrus and amygdala. | |||
***Hippocampus: CA1 and CA4 affected. | |||
Notes: | |||
*Changes in CA1 & CA4 of the hippocampus - DDx: | |||
**Epilpsy. | |||
**Dementia. | |||
==Cysts== | ==Cysts== |
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