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EPILEPSIA
Volume 45, Issue 6, Pages 641-649Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2004.33703.x
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parietal lobe epilepsy; surgical outcome; prognosis
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Purpose: To characterize the clinical features, the prognostic value, and diagnostic sensitivities of various presurgical evaluations and the Surgical outcomes in parietal lobe epilepsy (PLE), we describe 40 patients who were diagnosed as having PLE. including 27 surgically treated patients. Methods: The diagnosis was established by means of a standard presurgical evaluation, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), ictal single-photon emission tomography (SPECT), and scalp video-electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring. with additional intracranial EEG monitoring in selected cases. Results: Among the 40 patients, 27 experienced at least one type of aura. The most common auras were somatosensory (13 patients), followed by affective, vertiginous, and visual auras. The patients had diverse manifestations. Eighteen patients showed simple motor seizure, followed by automotor seizure, and dialeptic seizure. Two patients manifested generalized tonic-clonic seizures only, and 19 patients experienced more than one type of seizure. The surgical outcome was favorable in 22 of 26 patients including 14 who were seizure free. Patients with localized MRI abnormality had it higher probability to be seizure free, with marginal significance (p = 0.062) whereas other diagnostic modalities failed to predict the surgical outcome. In the seizure-free group, localization sensitivity was 64.3% by MRI, 50% by PET, 45.5% by ictal SPECT, and 35.7% by ictal EEG. The concordance rate of the various diagnostic modalities was higher in the seizure-free group than in the non-seizure-free group, although it did not reach statistical significance. Conclusions: Seizures, in the case of PLE, call manifest themselves in a wider variety of ways than was previously thought. Surgical Outcome was favorable in most of the patients. MRI abnormality and concordance of different diagnostic modalities were associated with high seizure-free rate.
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