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 …

Changing concepts in presurgical assessment for epilepsy surgery

M Zijlmans, W Zweiphenning, N van Klink - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2019 - nature.com
Candidates for epilepsy surgery must undergo presurgical evaluation to establish whether
and how surgical treatment can stop seizures without causing neurological deficits. Various …

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 …

MRI-negative PET-positive temporal lobe epilepsy: a distinct surgically remediable syndrome

RP Carne, TJ O'brien, CJ Kilpatrick, LR MacGregor… - Brain, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Most patients with non-lesional temporal lobe epilepsy (NLTLE) will have the findings of
hippocampal sclerosis (HS) on a high resolution MRI. However, a significant minority of …

[HTML][HTML] The contribution of 18F-FDG PET in preoperative epilepsy surgery evaluation for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: a meta-analysis

O Willmann, R Wennberg, T May, FG Woermann… - Seizure, 2007 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To assess the predictive diagnostic added value of positron emission
tomography (PET) in preoperative epilepsy surgery evaluation for patients with temporal …

Utility of 18F‐fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in presurgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy: a multicenter study

M Steinbrenner, JS Duncan, J Dickson, C Rathore… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective 18F‐Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG‐PET) is widely
used in presurgical assessment in patients with drug‐resistant focal epilepsy (DRE) if …

The utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET (FDG PET) in epilepsy surgery

C Rathore, JC Dickson, R Teotónio, P Ell, JS Duncan - Epilepsy research, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate the utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography
(FDG PET) in helping decision making for epilepsy surgery. Methods All patients with …

Current status and future role of brain PET/MRI in clinical and research settings

P Werner, H Barthel, A Drzezga, O Sabri - European journal of nuclear …, 2015 - Springer
Hybrid PET/MRI systematically offers a complementary combination of two modalities that
has often proven itself superior to the single modality approach in the diagnostic work-up of …

Hypometabolism precedes limbic atrophy and spontaneous recurrent seizures in a rat model of TLE

B Jupp, J Williams, D Binns, RJ Hicks, L Cardamone… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Temporal hypometabolism on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
(FDG‐PET) is a common finding in patients with drug‐resistant temporal lobe epilepsy …

Positron emission tomography in clinical neurology

K Herholz, WD Heiss - Molecular Imaging & Biology, 2004 - Elsevier
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in clinical neurology serves several purposes:
differential diagnosis, especially in the early stage of neurologic disorders, description of …