Intractable cryptogenic frontal lobe epilepsy in a patient with MURCS association

Epileptic Disord. 2006 Sep;8(3):204-7.

Abstract

The MURCS association is a rare, nonrandom association of müllerian duct aplasia, renal aplasia and cervicothoracic somite dysplasia. The etiology is unknown. Although it is usually a sporadic disorder, familial cases with uterovaginal anomalies have been reported. Occasionally, it may be accompanied by abnormalities involving various other organs or systems. Malformations related to the central nervous system are very rare and the presence of seizures has not been reported previously. We present a 26-year-old female with MURCS association who had late onset, drug resistant partial seizures presumably originating in the frontal lobe.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cysteine / analogs & derivatives
  • Drug Resistance
  • Epilepsy, Frontal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Epilepsy, Frontal Lobe / etiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Diseases / pathology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Mullerian Ducts / pathology*
  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • Radiography
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Stellate Ganglion / pathology*
  • Syndrome
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon

Substances

  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • technetium Tc 99m bicisate
  • Cysteine