Table 2 Demographic data of investigated patients.

From: Multimodal combination of neuroimaging methods for localizing the epileptogenic zone in MR-negative epilepsy

Parameter

Value

Patient group size

25 patients

Age at the surgery/measurement

Median (years)

30 (min–max, 17–50)

Sex

16 males, 9 females

Localization of surgery

Side

Lobe

18 right, 7 left

TLE in 9 patients, FLE in 10, ILE in 2, OE in 4

Outcome according to ILAE classification

11 × ILAE 1, 1 × ILAE 2, 2 × ILAE 3, 9 × ILAE 4, 2 × ILAE 5

Inclusion of ILAE class 3–5 was based on epileptogenic histopathology finding

Histology

15 × FCD (2 × IA, 1 × IB, 8 × IIA, 2 × IIB, 1 × IIIA, 1 × unclear), 5 × HS, 4 × negative, 1 × meningioangiomatosis

Patients with negative histological findings were included because of positive surgical outcomes

Surgery size median (cm3)

21 (min–max, 4–52)

Age at epilepsy onset

Median (years)

9 (min–max, 0–26)

Duration of epilepsy before surgery/measurement

Median (years)

21 (min–max, 3–47)

  1. FCD focal cortical dysplasia, FLE frontal lobe epilepsy, HS hippocampal sclerosis, ILE insular epilepsy, ILAE International League Against Epilepsy, max maximum, min minimum, PE parietal epilepsy, OE occipital epilepsy, PLE parietal lobe epilepsy, TLE temporal lobe epilepsy.