Figure 1.
Neuroimaging of a patient with epilepsy with both, neurocysticercosis and hippocampal sclerosis.
(A) A CT-scan shows calcified lesions typical of neurocysticercosis (arrow). (B) MRI of this patient shows abnormalities typical of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy associated with hippocampal sclerosis (circles).
Table 1.
Distribution of cysticerci according to cerebral region.
Table 2.
Pre-surgical parameters of MTLE-HS patients with (HS-NCC) and without (HS-ONLY) chronic calcified neurocysticercosis.
Table 3.
Surgical outcome according to Engel classification.
Figure 2.
Pre- and post- surgical cognitive performance in selected tests for left temporal lobectomy.
Surgery for treatment of left MTLE-HS significantly reduced selected neuropsychological test performance uniformly in both groups (see text). The presence of cNCC did not cause any additional cognitive loss. The continuous line represents HS-NCC group and the dotted line represents the HS-ONLY group.
Figure 3.
Pre- and post- surgical cognitive performance in selected tests for right temporal lobectomy.
Surgery for treatment of right MTLE-HS significantly improved selected neuropsychological test performance uniformly in both groups (see text). The presence of cNCC did not cause any additional cognitive loss. The continuous line represents the HS-NCC group and the dotted line represents the HS-ONLY group.
Table 4.
Results of Pre- and Postsurgical Neuropsychological Performance for Left Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.
Table 5.
Results of Pre- and Postsurgical Neuropsychological Performance for Right Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.