Results of surgical treatment of patient with supratentorial cavenroma and epilepsy

In past, cavernoma was frequently cause of symptomatic epilepsy without pathological substrate. We present the group of the patient (32) whose illness were presented by epilepsy, and who were treated in Institute for Neurosurgery from 1998 to 2003. There is the good correlation between presentation of epilepsy and largeness of the cavernoma (Phi 0.683). In 22 patients the epilepsy was controlled by medicaments, and in other the seizures were uncontrolled. Cavernoma initially presented with seizures had no inclination for massive intralesional or parenhimal bleeding. After surgical extirpation of lesion, there was good outcome during the following period of 3 years.