Brain imaging in the assessment for epilepsy surgery

JS Duncan, GP Winston, MJ Koepp… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
Brain imaging has a crucial role in the presurgical assessment of patients with epilepsy.
Structural imaging reveals most cerebral lesions underlying focal epilepsy. Advances in MRI …

The international consensus classification of Focal Cortical Dysplasia–a critical update 2018

IM Najm, HB Sarnat, I Blümcke - Neuropathology and applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Diagnostic Methods commission of the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE)
released a first international consensus classification of Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) in …

Assessment and surgical outcomes for mild type I and severe type II cortical dysplasia: a critical review and the UCLA experience

JT Lerner, N Salamon, JS Hauptman, TR Velasco… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Recent findings on the clinical, electroencephalography (EEG), neuroimaging, and surgical
outcomes are reviewed comparing patients with Palmini type I (mild) and type II (severe) …

Morphometric MRI analysis improves detection of focal cortical dysplasia type II

J Wagner, B Weber, H Urbach, CE Elger, HJ Huppertz - Brain, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Focal cortical dysplasias type II (FCD II) are highly epileptogenic lesions frequently causing
pharmacoresistant epilepsy. Detection of these lesions on MRI is still challenging as FCDs …

Different features of histopathological subtypes of pediatric focal cortical dysplasia

P Krsek, B Maton, B Korman… - Annals of Neurology …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) is the most frequent pathological finding in pediatric
epilepsy surgery patients. Several histopathological types of FCD are distinguished. The aim …

Voxel‐based morphometric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) postprocessing in MRI‐negative epilepsies

ZI Wang, SE Jones, Z Jaisani, IM Najm… - Annals of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective In the presurgical workup of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)‐negative (MRI−
or “nonlesional”) pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy (PFE) patients, discovering a previously …

Focal cortical dysplasia type IIa and IIb: MRI aspects in 118 cases proven by histopathology

N Colombo, L Tassi, F Deleo, A Citterio, M Bramerio… - Neuroradiology, 2012 - Springer
Introduction This study aims to review the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) aspects of a
large series of patients with focal cortical dysplasia type II (FCD II) and attempt to identify …

Multi-res-attention UNet: a CNN model for the segmentation of focal cortical dysplasia lesions from magnetic resonance images

E Thomas, SJ Pawan, S Kumar, A Horo… - IEEE journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we have focused on the segmentation of Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD)
regions from MRI images. FCD is a congenital malformation of brain development that is …

[HTML][HTML] The pathology of magnetic-resonance-imaging-negative epilepsy

ZI Wang, AV Alexopoulos, SE Jones, Z Jaisani… - Modern Pathology, 2013 - Elsevier
Patients with magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI)-negative (or 'nonlesional ')
pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy are the most challenging group undergoing presurgical …

Imaging of malformations of cortical development

N Colombo, N Salamon, C Raybaud… - Epileptic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Malformations of cortical development (MCD) include a broad range of disorders that result
from disruption of the major steps of cortical development: cell proliferation in germinal …