Epilepsy in adults

RD Thijs, R Surges, TJ O'Brien, JW Sander - The lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Epilepsy is one of the most common serious brain conditions, affecting over 70 million
people worldwide. Its incidence has a bimodal distribution with the highest risk in infants and …

Surgery for epilepsy

S West, SJ Nevitt, J Cotton, S Gandhi… - Cochrane Database …, 2019 - cochranelibrary.com
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PET/MRI: where might it replace PET/CT?

EC Ehman, GB Johnson… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Simultaneous positron emission tomography and MRI (PET/MRI) is a technology that
combines the anatomic and quantitative strengths of MR imaging with physiologic …

Surgical outcomes in lesional and non-lesional epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JF Téllez-Zenteno, LH Ronquillo, F Moien-Afshari… - Epilepsy research, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSES: To provide evidence-based quantitative summary estimates of seizure
outcomes in patients with non-lesional and lesional epilepsy treated with surgery, and to …

MRI‐negative temporal lobe epilepsy—What do we know?

W Muhlhofer, YL Tan, SG Mueller, R Knowlton - Epilepsia, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common focal epilepsy in adults. TLE has a high
chance of becoming medically refractory, and as such, is frequently considered for further …

Neuroimaging of epilepsy

F Cendes, WH Theodore, BH Brinkmann, V Sulc… - Handbook of clinical …, 2016 - Elsevier
Imaging is pivotal in the evaluation and management of patients with seizure disorders.
Elegant structural neuroimaging with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may assist in …

Hippocampal sclerosis—origins and imaging

K Malmgren, M Thom - Epilepsia, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The association between hippocampal sclerosis (HS) and epilepsy has been known for
almost two centuries. For many years, HS was studied in postmortem series; however, since …

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

WO Tatum IV - Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of adult localization-related
epilepsy. Hippocampal onset accounts for at least 80% of all temporal lobe seizures. The …

Disrupted basal ganglia–thalamocortical loops in focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures

X He, G Chaitanya, B Asma, L Caciagli, DS Bassett… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Focal to bilateral tonic-clonic seizures are associated with lower quality of life, higher risk of
seizure-related injuries, increased chance of sudden unexpected death, and unfavourable …

Surgical outcome and prognostic factors of cryptogenic neocortical epilepsy

SK Lee, SY Lee, KK Kim, KS Hong… - Annals of Neurology …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Surgical treatment of cryptogenic neocortical epilepsy is challenging. The aim of this study
was to evaluate surgical outcomes and to identify possible prognostic factors including the …