Ictal FDG-PET Outscores Ictal SPECT in Pediatric Epilepsia Partialis Continua: An Illustrative Example
Chandrasekaran Ganapathy1, Madhavi Tripathi1, Manjari Tripathi2
1Department of Nuclear Medicine.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|March 12, 2026
Abstract:
We present a case of a 3-year-old girl with intractable epilepsia partialis continua (EPC) for 6 months, in whom Ictal FDG-PET was able to accurately localize the seizure onsets while standalone ictal SPECT was noncontributory.
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