Research Article
Lesions of Acetylcholine Neurons in Refractory Epilepsy
Table 1
Summary of the subjects in the pathological analysis.
| Age/sex | Cause of death |
| Control | | 4 m/male | Peritonitis | 1 y/male | Malignant lymphoma | 6 y/male | Acute leukemia | 22 y/male | DIC | 29 y/male | Migraine | 38 y/female | Heart failure |
| | Etiology |
| West syndrome/Lennox-Gastaut syndrome | | 5 y/female | Lissencephaly | 8 y/male | Lissencephaly | 10 y/female | Lissencephaly | 13 y/male | Perinatal HIE | 18 y/male | Perinatal HIE | 21 y/male | Lissencephaly | West syndrome only | | 5 y/female
| Microdysgenesis
| 13 y/female
| Microdysgenesis | 16 y/male
| Heterotopia
| 20 y/male
| Perinatal HIE
| 24 y/male
| Porencephaly
| 26 y/Male | Microdysgenesis |
| | Disease type |
| Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy | | 16 y/female | Juvenile | 17 y/male | Juvenile | 21 y/male | Juvenile | 24 y/male | Juvenile | 27 y/male | Juvenile | 39 y/female | Early adult | 40 y/male | Early adult |
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m: months; y: years; DIC: disseminated intravascular coagulation; HIE: hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
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