Epilepsy and temporal lobe injury after skull base proton beam therapy

Ricardo Horacio Roda; Gary L. Gallia; Charles G. Eberhart; Jon D. Weingart; John Laterra

doi:10.1016/j.jocn.2009.04.003

Epilepsy and temporal lobe injury after skull base proton beam therapy

Ricardo Horacio Roda, Gary L. Gallia, Charles G. Eberhart, Jon D. Weingart, John Laterra

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Abstract

We present three patients who developed temporal lobe injury and epilepsy after proton beam therapy to the skull base. This particular form of treatment-related toxicity should be considered when treating skull base tumors.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1220-1221
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
Volume	16
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2009.04.003
State	Published - Sep 2009

Keywords

Epilepsy
Proton beam therapy
Radiation therapy
Skull base tumor

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Surgery
Neurology
Clinical Neurology
Physiology (medical)

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