Neuroimaging of focal cortical dysplasia: Neuropathological correlations

Epileptic Disorders

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Colombo, Nadia ^a   Citterio, Alberto ^a   Galli, Carlo ^a   Tassi, Laura ^a   Lo Russo, Giorgio ^a   Scialfa, G ^a   Spreafico, Roberto ^b  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^b Ist Nazionale Neurologico C Besta ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epilepsy surgery; Focal cortical dysplasia; MR imaging; Neuropathologic classification

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; EPILEPSY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0141925712     PISSN: 12949361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (31)

1. Taylor DC, Falconer MA. Focal dysplasia of the cerebral cortex in epilepsy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiat 1971; 34: 369-87.
2. Meencke HJ, Janz D. Neuropathological findings in primary generalized epilepsy: a study of eight cases. Epilepsia 1984; 25: 8-21.
3. Hardiman O, Burke T, Phillips J, et al. Microdysgenesis in resected temporal neocortex: Incidence and clinical significance in focal epilepsy. Neurology 1988; 38: 1041-7.
4. Kuzniecky RI, Garcia JH, Faught E, Morawetz R. Cortical dysplasia in TLE: magnetic resonance imaging correlations. Ann Neurol 1991; 29: 293-8.
5. Palmini A, Andermann F, Olivier A, Tampieri D, Robitaille Y. Focal neuronal migration disorders and intractable partial epilepsy: a study of 30 patients. Ann Neurol 1991; 30: 741-9.
6. Prayson RA, Estes ML. Cortical dysplasia: a histopathologic study of 52 cases of partial lobectomy in patients with epilepsy. Hum Pathol 1995; 26: 493-500.
7. Mischel PS, Nguyen LP, Vinters HV. Cerebral cortical dysplasia associated with pediatric epilepsy. Review of neuropathologic features and proposal for a grading system. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1995; 54: 137-53.
8. Robain O. Introduction to the pathology of cerebral cortical dysplasia. In: Guerrini R, Andermann F, Canapicchi R, Roger J, Zifkin BC, Pfanner P. Dysplasias of the cerebral cortex and epilepsy. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1996: 1-9.
9. Brannstrom T, Silfvenius H, Olivecrona M. The range of disorders of cortical organization in surgically treated epilepsy patients. In: Guerrini R, Andermann F, Canapicchi R, Roger J, Zifkin BC, Pfanner P. Dysplasias of the cerebral cortex and epilepsy. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1996: 57-64.
10. Armstrong DD, Mizrahi EM. Pathology of epilepsy in childhood. In: Scaravilli F. Neuropathology of epilepsy. Singapore: World Scientific, 1998: 169-338.
11. Cotter DR, Honavar M, Everall I. Focal cortical dysplasia: a neuropathological and developmental perspective. Epilepsy Research 1999; 36: 155-64.
12. Kasper BS, Stefan H, Buchfelder M, Paulus W. Temporal lobe microdysgenesis in epilepsy versus control brains. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 1999; 58: 22-8.
13. Kuznieky RI, Barkovich AJ. Malformations of cortical development and epilepsy. Brain Dev 2001; 23: 2-11.
14. Spreafico R. Developmental abnormalities in human epilepsy. Epilepsia 2000: 41-5.
15. Tassi L, Colombo N, Garbelli R, etal. Focal cortical dysplasia: neuropathological subtypes, EEG, neuroimaging and surgical outcome. Brain 2002; 125 (Pt 8): 1719-32.
16. Otsubo H, Hwang PA, Jay V, et al. Focal cortical dysplasia in children with localization-related epilepsy: EEG, MRI and SPECT findings. Pediatr Neurol 1993; 9: 101-7.
17. Yagishita A, Arai N, Maehara T, Shimizu H, Tokumaru AM, Oda M. Focal cortical dysplasia: appearance on MR images. Radiology 1997; 203: 553-9.
18. Bronen RA, Vives KP, Kim JH, Fulbright RK, Spencer SS, Spencer DD. Focal cortical dysplasia of Taylor, balloon cell subtype: MR differentiation from low-grade tumors. Am J Neuroradiol 1997; 18: 1141-51.
19. Kuzniecky RI. MRI of focal cortical dysplasia. In: Guerrini R, Andermann F, Canapicchi R, Roger J, Zifkin BC, Pfanner P. Dysplasias of the cerebral cortex and epilepsy. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 1996: 145-50.
20. Raymond AA, Cook MJC, Fish DR, Shorvon SD. Cortical dysgenesis in adults with epilepsy. In: Shorvon SD, Fish DR, Andermann F, Bydder GM, Stefan H, eds. Magnetic resonance scanning and epilepsy. New York: Plenum Press, 1994a: 89-94.
21. Kuznieky RI. Magnetic resonance imaging in developmental disorders of the cerebral cortex. Epilepsia 1994; 35: S44-S56.
22. Kuznieky RI. Neuroimaging in pediatric epilepsy. Epilepsia 1996; 37 (Suppl 1): S10-S21.
23. Kim SK, Na DG, Byun HS, et al. Focal cortical dysplasia: comparison of MRI and FDG-PET. J Comput Assist Tomogr 2000; 24: 296-302.
24. Bronen RA, Spencer DD, Fulbright RK. Cerebrospinal fluid cleft with cortical dimple: MR imaging marker for focal cortical dysgenesis. Radiology 2000; 214: 657-63.
25. Palmini A, Andermann F, Olivier A. Neuronal migration disorders: a contribution of modern neuroimaging to the etiologic diagnosis of epilepsy. Can J Neurol Sci 1991; 18: 580-7.
26. Barkovich AJ, Rowley HA, Andermann F. MR in partial epilepsy: value of high-resolution volumetric techniques. Am J Neuroradiol 1995; 16: 339-43,
27. Bastos AC, Korah IP, Cendes F, et al. Curvilinear reconstruction of 3D magnetic resonance imaging in patients with partial epilepsy: a pilot study. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1995; 13: 1107-12.
28. th Advanced Course of the ESNR. Bologna: Centauro srl, 2001: 9-12.
29. Colombo N, Tassi L, Galli C, Citterio A, Lo Russo G, Scialfa G, Spreafico R. Focal cortical dysplasias: MR imaging, histopathologic, and clinical correlations in surgically treated patients with epilepsy. Am J Neuroradiol 2003; 24: 724-33.
30. Tassi L, Pasquier B, Minotti L, et al. Cortical displasia: Electroclinical, imaging, and neuropathologic study of 13 patients. Epilepsia 2001; 42 (9): 1112-23.
31. Engel J Jr. Outcome with respect to epileptic seizures. In: Engel J Jr. Surgical treatment of the epilepsies. New York: Raven Press, 1987: 553-71.