The role of functional neuroimaging in pre-surgical epilepsy evaluation
The prevalence of epilepsy is about 1% and one-third of cases do not respond to medical treatment. In an elegible subset of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy, surgical resection of the epileptogenic zone is the only treatment that can possibly cure the disease. Non-invasive techniques provide in...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neurology |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fneur.2014.00031/full |