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- Title
Standard magnetic resonance imaging is inadequate for patients with refractory focal epilepsy.
- Authors
Von Oertzen, J; Urbach, H; Jungbluth, S; Kurthen, M; Reuber, M; Fernández, G; Elger, C E
- Abstract
Patients with intractable epilepsy may benefit from epilepsy surgery especially if they have a radiologically demonstrable cerebral lesion. Dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocols as performed at epilepsy surgery centres can detect epileptogenic abnormalities with great sensitivity and specificity. However, many patients with epilepsy are investigated with standard MRI sequences by radiologist outside epilepsy centres ("non-experts"). This study was undertaken to compare standard MRI and epilepsy specific MRI findings in patients with focal epilepsy.
- Publication
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2002, Vol 73, Issue 6, p643
- ISSN
0022-3050
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1136/jnnp.73.6.643