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Focal cerebral causes

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Focal cerebral causes of epilepsy include:

  • birth injury or cerebral malformation
  • vascular lesions:
    • CVA
    • subdural haematoma
    • vasculitis, e.g. SLE
    • hypertension
    • vascular malformation, e.g. Sturge-Weber
  • tumour
  • trauma
  • irradiation
  • atrophy
  • degenerative disease, for example presenile dementia
  • other neurological disease:
    • multiple sclerosis
    • leukodystrophies
    • tuberous sclerosis: epiloia

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