Table 16.1.

Incidence and risk factors of epilepsy across brain tumor types

Tumor type	Approximate incidence of seizures	Risk factor for seizures	References
Glioneuronal tumors	70–80%	Frontotemporal, insular	Aronica et al. (2001); Luyken et al. (2003); Southwell et al. (2012)
Low-grade gliomas	60–75%	Frontotemporal, insular, superficial	Chang et al. (2008a); Pignatti et al. (2002); Recht and Glantz (2008); Lee et al. (2010); You et al. (2012); Iuchi et al. (2015)
High-grade gliomas	25–60%	WHO grade III, temporal lobe, superficial	Sheth (2002); van Breemen et al. (2007); Jacoby et al. (2008); Chaichana et al. (2009b); Sizoo et al. (2010)
Meningiomas	20–50%	Peritumoral edema	Yao (1994); Chow et al. (1995); Lieu and Howng (2000); Oberndorfer et al. (2002)
Metastases	20–35%	Melanoma, lung cancer	Oberndorfer et al. (2002); Lynam et al. (2007); Avila (2013)

WHO, World Health Organization.