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Posttraumatic epilepsy (PTE) is well known that seizures occur from and near cerebral contusion, and the incidence of seizures is correlated with the severity of head injury [1]. We know some epilepsy patients whose seizures occurred after mild head trauma. Patients or their family often said to us, “the cause of seizures is head trauma”, even if head trauma is mild severity. We propose the concept termed “head trauma related epilepsy .... Head trauma related epilepsy” is including two categories. PTE has apparent contusions on MRI and seizures occur from and around the contusion. Trauma associated epilepsy (TAE), whose seizures occurred after head trauma, but no obvious contusion is revealed on MRI. This presentation is aimed to clarify the clinical features and compare the results between PTE and TAE.
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Hoshida, T. et al. (2006). Head Trauma Related Epilepsy. In: Kanno, T., Kato, Y. (eds) Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery and Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-28576-8_41
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