Gli autori esaminano retrospettivamente 55 casi di pazienti in età evolutiva, studiati sul piano neurologico per epilessia parziale diagnosticata nell'ultimo triennio (1987–1990).
Vengono discussi i reperti TC e RM riscontrati nei seguenti casi: anomalie di migrazione e sulcali (8 casi), malformazioni del complesso ventricolo cisternale (8), facomatosi (6), atrofia da esiti di patologia fetale o perinatale (10), MAV (10), tumori (10), encefalite erpetica (2), Moya-Moya (1).
L'analisi della presente casistica e di quella riportata in letteratura fornisce utili indicazioni sull'impiego delle diverse metodiche neuroradiologiche in età pediatrica, con particolare riguardo ai pazienti affetti da epilessia parziale lesionale.
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