Magnetoencephalography-guided surgery in frontal lobe epilepsy using neuronavigation and intraoperative MR imaging

Approximately 25 –40% of patients with epilepsy suffer from drug-resistant seizures. Besides the disabling occurrence of seizures, patients experience cognitive impairment, reduced quality of life, increased mortality and permanent neurological deficits when not treated surgically (Laxer et al., 2014). Following t emporal lobe epilepsy, frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) is the second most common type of drug-resistant epilepsy that is encountered. Approximately 20% of all patients with epilepsy suffer from frontal lobe seizures (Lee et al., 2008; Pondal-Sordo et al., 2006).
Source: Epilepsy Research - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research