[Interictal brain SPECT in patients with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy].

The objective of this study was to evaluate the utility of interictal brain SPECT in localizing the epileptogenic focus in a population of patients of Epilepsy Clinic of Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho (HUCFF/UFRJ), with medically refractory temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) and normal computed tomography (CT) scans, studying the correlation between SPECT, electroencephalogram (EEG) and, in 11 cases, brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and to compare the results to the other six literature series. Twelve (52.2%) patients presented abnormal SPECT.