Department of Imaging Sciences and Interventional Radiology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.
Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2011 Nov;21(4):867-77, viii-ix. doi: 10.1016/j.nic.2011.07.013. Epub 2011 Sep 3.
Epilepsy is a major public health problem in many tropical countries. Also, some of the tropical diseases are major contributors to the higher prevalence of epilepsy in these countries. The etiologic factors responsible for epilepsy in these countries are quite different from those in the developed world. This article discusses the etiologic factors and neuroimaging of epilepsy in light of the conditions in these tropical countries.
癫痫是许多热带国家的一个主要公共卫生问题。此外,一些热带病是这些国家癫痫发病率较高的主要原因。这些国家癫痫的病因与发达国家有很大不同。本文根据这些热带国家的情况讨论了癫痫的病因和神经影像学。