RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Magnetic resonance imaging in the management of resistant focal epilepsy: pathological case report and experience of 12 cases.
JF Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
JO J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 1529
OP 1532
DO 10.1136/jnnp.50.11.1529
VO 50
IS 11
A1 R Grant
A1 D M Hadley
A1 B Condon
A1 D Doyle
A1 J Patterson
A1 I Bone
A1 S L Galbraith
A1 G M Teasdale
YR 1987
UL http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/50/11/1529.abstract
AB Clinical improvement in epilepsy following temporal lobectomy is more often obtained when an abnormality is found on subsequent histological examination. Pre-operative MRI demonstrated an abnormal signal in the temporal lobe of a patient with pathologically proven mesial temporal sclerosis with microvascular anomaly. MRI may therefore be helpful in the selection of patients for temporal lobectomy. MRI findings of 12 patients with resistant focal epilepsy are reviewed. A wide range of T1 and T2 weighting is suggested to maximise selection of patients.