Ictal perfusion patterns associated with single MRI-visible focal dysplastic lesions: Implications for the noninvasive delineation of the epileptogenic zone

Epilepsia

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1550-1557

  Dupont, Patrick ^a   Van Paesschen, Wim ^a   Palmini, Andre ^a,c   Ambayi, Rudo ^a   Van Loon, Johannes ^a   Goffin, Jan ^a   Weckhuysen, Sarah ^a   Sunaert, Stefan ^a   Thomas, Bejoy ^a   Demaerel, Philippe ^a   Sciot, Raf ^a   Becker, Albert J ^b   Vanbilloen, Hubert ^a   Mortelmans, Luc ^a   Van Laere, Koen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^c PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Epileptogenic zone; Focal cortical dysplasia; Focal dysplastic lesions; Ictal SPECT; Refractory epilepsy; SISCOM; Surgical outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPLASIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SEIZURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 33748687455     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2006.00628.x     Document Type: Article

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