MRI diagnosis of cortical dysplasia in the immature brain

• Published in: Èpilepsiâ i paroksizmalʹnye sostoâniâ (Online) Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 36 - 50
• Main Authors: Polyanskaya, M. V., Demushkina, A. A., Kostylev, F. A., Kurbanova, F. A., Vasilyev, I. G., Chadaev, V. A., Zavadenko, N. N., Alikhanov, A. A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: IRBIS LLC 16.04.2020
• Subjects: brain mri; epilepsy surgery; epileptogenic lesion; malformations of cortical development; myelination

Introduction. Cortical dysplasias (CDs) encompass a wide variety of disorders that in most cases lead to epilepsy, especially in infants and young children. MRI diagnosis of CDs is a major part of presurgical examination of pediatric patients with resistant focal epilepsy. Aim. To identify MR marker...