[Type 1 neurofibromatosis and epilepsy]
Amel Boughammoura-Bouatay1, Yousr Hizem, Saber Chebel
1Service de neurologie, CHU Monastir.
Abstract:
Epilepsy has been rarely reported with type 1 neurofibromatosis (Reckling Hausen disease). It may occur in 3 to 6% of cases. We report in this study three cases of patients with type 1 neurofibromatosis associated with epilepsy. The patients were respectively 23, 30 and 35 years old. Epilepsy was focal and complex in one patient, generalized in one case and simply focal in another one. Cerebral MRI showed sphenoidal dysplasia and temporal lobe ectopy compressing orbital structures in one patient and normal in the other cases. We discuss trough these three cases the relationship between Reckling Hausen disease and epilepsy.
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