[PDF] Top 20 Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Comparison of CT and MR Imaging

... In these six patients, the lesions were homogeneous on the CT scan, but the SE 1600/35 image in individual cases also SE 1600/70 images showed an inhomogeneous lesion with areas of centr[r] ... See full document

... Statistical Analysis. The standardized volumes of structures were compared by 2-tailed t tests corrected for multiple comparisons (␣ ⬍ 0.05). Volume ratios reduced the effect of methodologic error intro- duced by spatial ... See full document

... different imaging techniques may be explained by the fact that they measure different aspects of the epileptic process; that is, MR imaging depicts only gross anatomic alterations associated with ... See full document

... diagnostic MR imaging other than mesial temporal sclerosis; 2) focal ictal temporal lobe patterns recorded with scalp-sphenoidal EEG or mesial temporal seizure onset in patients ... See full document

... qualitative MR imaging (QMR), and quantitative MR imaging with hippocampal formation volumetric assessment (HV MR) to lateralize the seizure focus in patients with temporal ... See full document

... tical epilepsy have been reported to be worse than those of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilep- sy, although recent advances in neuroimaging and surgical techniques have improved outcomes (2, ... See full document

... Summary data for the patient group and the control sub- jects, along with the relevant medical history and DTI mea- surements are shown in Tables 1 and 2. In our analysis, we compared the group HF mean diffusivity and FA ... See full document

... mesial temporal sclerosis experi- enced onset of temporal lobe epilepsy by the age of 10 ...The comparison of these two groups showed a significant difference in the history of febrile ... See full document

... nonlesional MR imaging findings (MR imaging- negative and -positive ...multimodal imaging, especially in patients with TLE without pathologic findings in MR imaging ... See full document

... resonance imaging (MRI) negative” TLE ...mesial temporal lobes on routine visual assessment, despite we cannot preclude completely that “MRI negative” TLE may have HS identified after epilepsy ... See full document

... On-line Table 1 shows the results of VBM analyses of GM and WM volumes for the mesial TLE and healthy control groups. Volumetric analysis by using VBM identified a volume loss in 20 GM regions and 19 WM regions of the ... See full document

... with temporal onset, interictal epileptiform discharges on interictal electroencephalography, and hippocam- pal atrophy on visual inspection of MR ...on MR imaging, and a detailed description ... See full document

... proton MR spectroscopy of the mesial temporal lobes in the lateralization of the epileptogenic zone in patients with temporal lobe ...with temporal lobe epilepsy ... See full document

... Various techniques have been developed to mini- mize or correct for the effects of the nonideal excita- tion profiles of volume-selection pulses and for vol- ume-displacement effects with MRSI. The VOI- prescribing ... See full document

... 1995). Epilepsy is characterized by a clinical manifestation due to a sudden discharge of a large number of nerve cells of the brain, which is accompanied by an increase in blood ...for epilepsy (Penfield, ... See full document

... of temporal lobe origin underwent proton MR spectroscopy within 24 hours of their last ...the epilepsy monitoring unit were included in this study as they were usually taken off medication for ... See full document

... at epilepsy onset, and years with epilepsy. MR imaging findings were more often initially normal in patients with TEs (P ⬍ ...whom MR imaging was acquired using a 3T magnet (P ⫽ ... See full document

... medial temporal lobe memory system (13), the oc- currence of damage within these structures could contribute, in part, to the clinical symptomatology of ...volumetric MR imaging studies have ... See full document

... with temporal lobe epilepsy than in normal control par- ticipants, and ipsilateral mesial temporal CBF was significantly decreased compared with contralateral mesial temporal ...with ... See full document

... A possible future area of research is the comparison of IFM results with inter-ictal EEG stud- ies. Region correspondences could benefit EEG-based diagnosis and also provide a heuristic for better electrode ... See full document