Electroencephalography and computerized transaxial tomography in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Computerized transaxial tomography was carried out on 112 patients with partial seizures with complex symptomatology. Structural abnormalities were defined in 33% of their studies: tumors in 8 patients, diffuse cerebral atrophy in 2, focal cortical atrophy in 27 and vascular abnormality in 1 case.