Identification and localization of epileptogenic zone (EZ) is vital in patiets with medically-intractable focal epilepsy, who may be candidates for potentially curative resective epilepsy surgery. Presence of a lesion on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) influences both diagnostic classification and selection for surgery. However, the implications for MRI-negative cases are not well-defined for such patients. Most of these patients undergo invasive long-term Electroencephalography recordings before a final decision regarding resection is possible. Recent developments in structural and functional neuroimaging which include quali-quantitative MRI, Positron Emission Tomography, Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, and functional MRI have significantly changed presurgical epilepsy evaluation. Source analysis based on electrophysiological information, using either EEG or magnetoencephalography are also promising in order to noninvasively localize the EZ and to guide surgery in medically-intractable focal epilepsy patients that exhibit nonlesional MRI. This chapter aims to review the value of the combined use of structural and functional imaging techniques, and how this multimodal approach improves both selection of surgical candidates and post-operative outcomes in medically-intractable nonlesional focal epilepsy.
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Multimodal imaging in nonlesional medically intractable focal epilepsy
Lilia Maria Morales Chaco1,*, Carlos Alfredo Sanchez Catasus1, Margarita Minou Baez Martin1, Rafael Rodriguez Rojas1, Lourdes Lorigados Pedre1, Barbara Estupiñan Diaz1
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Epilepsy Surgery Program, International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN), Ave 25 # 15805% 158 and 160, Playa 11300, Havana, Cuba
Academic Editor:Antoni Camins
Front. Biosci. (Elite Ed) 2015 , 7(1), 48–65;
https://doi.org/10.2741/E716
Published: 1 January 2015
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Keywords
EEG
epilepsy surgery
MEG
MRI
multimodal imaging
nonlesional medically intractable epilepsy
SPECT
PET
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