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ArticleFrontiers in network physiology2024

Case Report: Focal, generalized, or both: does generalized network involvement preclude successful epilepsy surgery?

Cathy K Cui, Wui-Kwan Wong, Chong H Wong, Deepak Gill, Michael W K Fong

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Article in Frontiers in network physiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Cathy K CuiWestmead Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Wui-Kwan WongWestmead Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Chong H WongWestmead Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Deepak GillWestmead Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Michael W K FongWestmead Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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Abstract

We present two cases with focal seizures where scalp electroencephalography (EEG) had prominent features of a developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE): Case 1: a 17-year-old male with complex motor seizures whose EEG demonstrated a slow spike-and-wave pattern and generalized paroxysmal fast activity (GPFA). Case 2: a 12-year-old male with startle-induced asymmetric tonic seizures whose EEG also had a slow spike-and-wave pattern. Both patients had intracranial EEG assessment, and focal cortical resections resulted in long-term seizure freedom and resolution of generalized findings. These cases exemplify patients with focal epilepsy with networks that share similarities to generalized epilepsies, and importantly, these features did not preclude curative epilepsy surgery.

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epilepsy surgeryepileptic networksfrontal lobe epilepsyintracranial electroencephalographysemiology

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PMCPMC11269090

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