Resonancia magnética y localización clínica y electroencefalográfica en la epilepsia focal. / [Magnetic resonance and clinical and electroencephalographical localization in focal epilepsy]

ABSTRACT

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the method of choice to search for epileptogenic lesions. We correlated MRI findings with the epileptogenic zone (EZ) depicted by clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) data. We studied 400 clinical records of patients who had been submitted to MRI studies and we analyzed, retrospectively, their ictal semiology, EEG characteristics and response to treatment. They were classified into 3 groups A) temporal lobe epilepsy, B) frontal lobe epilepsy and C) parieto-occipital epilepsy. We included 155 patients Group A) 68 cases (43.9