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Network Analysis of Foramen Ovale Electrode Recordings in Drug-resistant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Patients
Published on: December 18, 2016
Sutton's law in epilepsy: because that is where the lesion is
Katherine A Mortati1, Vanessa Arnedo, Nicholas Post
1Department of Neurology, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA.
Abstract:
Successful epilepsy surgery requires unambiguous identification of the epileptogenic zone. This determination may be a challenge when the pre-surgical evaluation yields conflicting data. We evaluated an adult patient with a right insular mass, but a seizure semiology, interictal EEG, and ictal EEG, suggesting left temporal lobe epilepsy. Resection of the mass, a ganglioglioma, resulted in seizure freedom and disappearance of interictal left temporal lobe epileptiform discharges. This case illustrates the principle that in localization-related epilepsy, the money is usually in the mass.
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