[Transverse axial computerised tomography of the brain in partial epilepsy]

Two hundred epileptics presenting with partial epileptic attacks were subjected to investigation by Acta-Scanner. Results were normal in 100 cases. Also found were 20 tumours (13 of them astrocytomas), 7 epileptogenic softenings, 41 cerebral atrophies, 8 of which were porencephalies, 5 calcifications (3 isolated, 2 multiple, connected with Bourneville's disease), 5 post-operative lesions and 22 dubious conditions. Various correlations between the results of scanning, the clinical findings and the E.E.G. are considered. The value of scanning in screening for tumours developing under the cloak of isolated epilepsy is emphasized and attention is drawn to certain difficulties of interpretation.