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Osteoma

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 12:51

I had forgotten to mention,but when my son experienced his first seizure,the ct scan revealed an incidental finding of a left frontal nasal osteoma,which is a bone like tumor that grows on bone. The neurologist says it has nothing to do with the seizures. Anyone else experienced this? It just makes me wonder.

Comments

well, I have experienced

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2014-07-10 - 14:22
well, I have experienced imaging finding something that is not relevant to the issue they did the imaging for on a child.  It can complicate things when suggesting that people read the radiology reports (sometimes a big learning curve on what is directly relevant, what is incidental that may need treatment, what sounds scary but isn't, what sounds benign but is scary, etc..), but I'm a big believer in learning what one can and dealing with reality in order to get better outcomes.  It also can trip up some doctors - not the attendings who are experienced but it happens (peripheral docs and residents/fellows) and discussions with multiple doctors can confuse patients/families.  Nowadays all our child's imaging comes back with medical speak for 'looks just like before' which sounds nice is actually bad news for another condition but it isn't relevant to the seizures our child has.  There is a lot of variation in people's brains.

Seizures are electrical

Submitted by just_joe on Wed, 2014-07-16 - 20:39
Seizures are electrical impulses that go off wrong in the brain causing a chain reaction. The ostemoa grows on bone and unless it is in or on the brain it has nothing to do with seizures SOmething like a scar tissue or an area that didn't grow right on the brain can and dose cause people to have epilepsy. I know that because my epilepsy is caused by a blow to the brain which hemmoraged causeing scared brain tissue. The EEG found abnormalities (seizure activity. The neuro-angeogram (MRI of the 1960's) was looked closer in tha area the abnormalities came from.they came from more then 1 lobe on the left side of my brain. The neurologist is correct of not on the brain it does not cause electrical output going off wrong.

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