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WILDER PENFIELD, M.D.; T. C. ERICKSON, M.D.; I. TARLOV, M.D.

Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 1940;44(2):300-315.

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That focal epileptic seizures may be the direct result of the presence of a tumor of the brain has long been recognized (Hughlings Jackson,¹ Bramwell,² Biemond,³ Lehoczky,⁴ Walshe,⁵ Furlow and Sachs,⁶ List,⁷ and Pedersen⁸). The incidence of epileptiform seizures in cases of such a tumor and the relative importance of cerebral localization, histologic structure and rate of growth are analyzed in the present communication. Inquiry is made also concerning the continuance of seizures after extirpation of the tumor.

This report is based on a study of 703 cases of intracranial tumors, all of which (except 6 cases of pontile tumors) were verified by histologic study. "Intracranial tumor" is interpreted as meaning an expanding intracranial lesion. This would include neoplasms, tuberculomas, abscesses of the brain and extracerebral and intracerebral hematomas. To allow a study of postoperative results, no case of more recent date . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MONTREAL, CANADA

From the Montreal Neurological Institute and the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University.