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We report the case of a child with drug-refractory partial epilepsy in whom computed tomography showed no abnormality and magnetic resonance imaging showed a noninvasive cystic lesion in the left hippocampus. The finding in the positron emission tomography study with l-[methyl-11C]-methionine as a tracer suggested a tumor. This finding was confirmed histologically.
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Metsähonkala, L., Äarimaa, T., Sonninen, P. et al. CT, MRI, and PET in a case of intractable epilepsy. Child's Nerv Syst 12, 421–424 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00395100
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