Clinical added value of magnetic source imaging in the presurgical evaluation of refractory focal epilepsy.

Abstract

MSI is a clinically relevant, non-invasive neuroimaging technique for the presurgical evaluation of patients with refractory focal epilepsy and, particularly, in patients with presumed extratemporal and undetermined localisation epilepsy.

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Subjects

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Epilepsies, Partial
• Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
• Female
• Humans
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Magnetoencephalography
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Neuropsychological Tests
• Preoperative Care
• Prospective Studies
• Young Adult

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Authors

• Xavier De Tiège
• Evelien Carrette
• Benjamin Legros
• Kristl Vonck
• Marc Op de Beeck
• Mathieu Bourguignon
• Nicolas Massager
• Philippe David
• Dirk Van Roost
• Alfred Meurs
• Samuel Lapere
• Karel Deblaere
• Serge Goldman
• Paul Boon
• Patrick Van Bogaert

Publication date

2012-03-08

Journal

Journal topics

• Neurology

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry

Magnetoencephalography Unit, Laboratoire de Cartographiefonctionnelle du Cerveau, Université Libre de Bruxelles(ULB), Brussels, Belgium. xdetiege [at] ulb.ac.be

Release reference

J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2012 Apr;83(4):417-23

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