SYMPTOMATIC EPILEPSY IN PATIENTS WITH

Th e aim of our work is to determine the total number, age, gender of the patients with the symptomatic epileptic seizures associated with brain tumours, tumour location, clinical signs and characteristics of epileptic seizures. We have analyzed medical documentation of the patients with brain tumours hospital-ized at the Department of Neurology, University of Sarajevo Clinics Centre. Th is study is retrospective and includes time period from st January until st December . During the observed period at the Department of Neurology in Sarajevo there were in total hos-pitalized patients, from which (,) patients with the brain tumour diagnosis. Average patient’s age was , ± , years. In one third of the patients () were recorded epileptic seizures, without signifi-cant diff erence between genders. In case of symptomatic epilepsy, signifi cantly more frequent locations of tumours were: in several lobes (), parietal lobe (), as well as frontal and temporal lobe (, each), while there were no changes in cerebellum and brain stem (χ =,, p<,). Th e most prominent signs of illness in our sample were hemiparesis with the cranial nerves lesion (,), speech problems (). Normal neurologic fi ndings were signifi cantly more frequent among patients with the symptomatic epilepsy (χ =,, p<,). Th e most often was a single seizure (), in o