A 16-year-old girl with focal seizures and impaired awareness: divergent non-invasive data related to a diffuse epileptogenic network.

Epileptic Disord

Department of Neurology and Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, Brain Institute, Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida, Department of Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.

Published: June 2016

We describe a patient with medically refractory focal epilepsy who presented with divergent non-invasive data, with MRI revealing hippocampal sclerosis and EEG indicating involvement of the occipital lobe. A localized corticectomy over the occipital convexity was performed based on intracranial EEG recording. The patient was seizure-free after four years of follow-up. Electroclinical hypotheses and challenges of defining the epileptogenic network are discussed.

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