Hypothalamic hamartomas

04/01/2000 - "Gamma knife radiosurgery can be an effective and safe treatment modality for achieving good seizure control in patients with hypothalamic hamartomas."
07/01/2003 - "It is now clear that hypothalamic hamartomas can be effectively treated with a variety of surgical approaches with sustained seizure control and often seizure freedom. "
10/01/2005 - "LINAC SRS represents a safe and effective therapeutic alternative for patients with medically refractory gelastic seizures due to unresectable hypothalamic hamartomas. "
12/01/2003 - "Our series illustrates the feasibility and relative safety of disconnecting surgery of hypothalamic hamartomas, with seizure relief in 50% and a dramatic improvement in the others. "
02/01/2003 - "Our series illustrates the feasibility and relative safety of disconnection surgery for hypothalamic hamartomas with seizure relief in 53% of patients and dramatic improvement in the others. "

12/01/2000 - "Drug-resistant epilepsy associated with hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) can be cured by microsurgical resection of the lesions. "
02/01/2011 - "This study aims to examine the outcomes of ten patients after orbitozygomatic (OZ) pterional surgery in cases of refractory epilepsy caused by hypothalamic hamartomas (HH). "
12/01/2010 - "Gamma Knife surgery for hypothalamic hamartomas causing refractory epilepsy: preliminary results from a prospective observational study."
01/01/2015 - "First description of pharmacoresistant epilepsy due to independent bilateral hypothalamic hamartomas."
12/01/2014 - "Hypothalamic hamartomas (HH) may induce drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), thereby requiring surgical treatment. "

01/01/2016 - "The approach seems particularly beneficial when dealing with deep, focal lesions, such as hypothalamic hamartomas or hippocampal sclerosis. "
01/01/2015 - "Outcome of epilepsy surgery was related to the underlying pathology; two patients with hippocampal sclerosis had good outcomes following temporal lobe resection and one of four patients with hypothalamic hamartomas undergoing gamma knife surgery had a good outcome. "
03/01/2007 - "Recent prospective trials suggest that radiosurgery may be an effective and safe treatment for medically intractable epilepsy associated with mesial temporal sclerosis, cavernous malformations, and hypothalamic hamartomas."

12/01/2015 - "Here we present two cases of central precocious puberty due to hypothalamic hamartomas at 2(8/12) and 7 years of age. "
01/01/2008 - "Gene expression profiling of hypothalamic hamartomas: a search for genes associated with central precocious puberty."
01/01/2005 - "This article discusses the potential mechanisms by which hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) are formed and cause precocious puberty. "
05/01/1999 - "Hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) are benign lesions often associated with central precocious puberty. "
02/01/1998 - "Role of surgical resection in the treatment of hypothalamic hamartomas causing precocious puberty. "

10/01/1998 - "Hypothalamic hamartomas and gelastic epilepsy: a spectroscopic study."
01/01/2013 - "Likewise, minimally invasive techniques are utilized, such as the endoscopic disconnection of hypothalamic hamartomas for gelastic epilepsy. "
10/01/2011 - "Gelastic epilepsy and hypothalamic hamartomas: neuroanatomical analysis of brain lesions in 100 patients."
09/01/2008 - "Surgical management of hypothalamic hamartomas in patients with gelastic epilepsy."
05/01/2008 - "Surgical resection of hypothalamic hamartomas (HHs) associated with drug-resistant gelastic epilepsy carries a considerable risk of neurological and endocrine morbidity. "