“Magnetic source imaging in presurgical evaluation of paediatric focal drug-resistant epilepsy and its predictive value of surgical outcome in lesional cases: A single-centre experience from South India”.

Approximately 10-20% of children with epilepsy develop drug resistance (DRE) [1]. Drug resistant epilepsy in a subset of children can lead to epileptic encephalopathy and resective surgery can potentially prevent this catastrophic complication [2]. Delineation of EZ [3] poses some difficulty in children. The presentation of focal epilepsy is often heterogeneous in childhood. Children with hemispheric or unilateral focal aetiologies can have generalized seizures, generalized and multifocal EEG patterns, and rapid evolution of electroclinical features.

Source: Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy - May 22, 2021 Category: Neurology Authors: Bhargava Gautham, Asheeb Ahmed, Ravindranadh Chowdary Mundlamuri, Mariyappa Narayanan, Velmurugan Jayabal, Raghavendra Kenchaiah, Ajay Asranna, Bharath Rose Dawn, Saini Jitender, Chandana Nagaraj, Sandhya Mangalore, Kulanthaivelu Karthik, Nishanth Sadashi Source Type: research