Seizure focus in the frontal interhemispheric fissure leads to ipsilateral isolated eye deviation.
Epilepsy Behav
; 116: 107772, 2021 03.
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| ID: mdl-33556862
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Few studies have examined the localization of seizures presenting with ictal eye deviation (ED) in the absence of other motor symptoms. We aimed to investigate differences in the localization of the ictal onset zone (IOZ) between patients with isolated ED and those with ED plus head turning (HT) during focal seizures.METHODS:
We reviewed intracranial video-EEG data for 931 seizures in 80 patients with focal onset epilepsy in whom the IOZ could be confirmed. The 233 seizures in 49 patients with ED were classified into two semiological groups based on initial ED and the presence/absence of HT (1) isolated ED (i.e., ED without HT), and (2) EDâ¯+â¯HT (i.e., ED with HT). We analyzed the localization and lateralization of IOZs in each semiological group. We performed multivariate logistic regression analysis using a mixed-effects to determine the associations between IOZs and isolated ED/EDâ¯+â¯HT.RESULTS:
A total of 183 IOZs in 24 patients were included in the isolated ED group, while a total of 143 IOZs in 31 patients were included in the EDâ¯+â¯HT group. Sixty-eight IOZs of eight patients in the isolated ED group were located in the ipsilateral frontal interhemispheric fissure (F-IHF). Only ipsilateral F-IHF was significantly associated with isolated ED (odds ratio [OR], 2.43; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.37-4.49; Pâ¯=â¯0.021). The contralateral lateral frontal cortex (latF) (Pâ¯=â¯0.007) and ipsilateral mesial temporal region (mT) (Pâ¯=â¯0.029) were significantly associated with EDâ¯+â¯HT.CONCLUSION:
The present study is the first to demonstrate that seizures with an F-IHF focus tend to present with initial ipsilateral isolated ED. This finding may aid in identifying the seizure focus in patients with isolated ED prior to resection.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Epilepsy, Frontal Lobe
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Epilepsies, Partial
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Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Epilepsy Behav
Journal subject:
CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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NEUROLOGIA
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
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