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Chronic Encephalitis and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Variant of Rasmussen's Syndrome? Neurol 56:678-681, Hennessy,M.J.,et al, 2001 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract The authors report two adult patients with chronic temporal lobe epilepsy and pathologic features consistent with Rasmussen's encephalitis. Although seizures persisted after temporal lobe surgery no progressive cognitive or neurologic defic it has emerged. Prominent auditory auras in each suggested a persisting epileptogenic focus in the superior temporal gyrus. The current findings expand the clinical spectrum of Rasmussen's encephalitis and suggest that chronic nonprogressive encephaliti s may serve as the pathologic substrate of medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy.

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