The Relation of Organic Brain Disease to Epilepsy
Authors: E. Bates Block
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1928)

Article1 December 1928The Relation of Organic Brain Disease to EpilepsyE. BATES BLOCK, M.D.E. BATES BLOCK, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-2-6-531 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIt is obvious that a complete consideration of this subject cannot be condensed into a paper to which such a short time is allotted, but a discussion of some important debated points will be given. The author has elsewhere given a more complete account of the etiology of epilepsy but important additions to our knowledge have been made since that time (Block (1), (2)).Convulsions occur from many brain diseases such as brain tumor, abscess, cysts, maldevelopment of the brain, porencephalia, cerebral hemorrhage, hydrocephalus, cerebral syphilis, arteriosclerosis, localized edema of the brain, traumata, fractures of the skull, meningitis, meningo-encephalitis, adhesions...Bibliography(1) BLOCK EB: Tice's Practice of Medicine, 1920, x, 401. Google Scholar(2) BLOCK EB: The Etiology of Epilepsy, Sou. Med. Jour., 1920, xiii, 469. CrossrefGoogle Scholar(3) THOMSOUTHARD : An anatomical search for idiopathic epilepsy, Rev. Neurol. and Psychiat., 1915, xiii, 471. Google Scholar(4) MUNSON : Jour. Nerv. & Ment. Dis., 1912, xxxix, 262. CrossrefGoogle Scholar(5) JELLINEK Z: Militara̋rztliche Konstatierung d. Epil., Wien Klin. Woch., 1915, xxxiii, 1021. 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