FRAANN
Female, 17 y.o., with severe form of temporal lobe epilepsy
| Duration of the recordings: | 28'24" |
| Number of seizures included: | 0 |
| Age at recording: | 17 |
| Age at surgery: | 17 |
| Maximal interictal period included: | 28'24" |
| Number of inter-ictal events: | 3 |
Epileptogenic structures marked by epileptologis
Scans of 3 MRI sections with location of foci
17 y.o. female with severe form of refractory epilepsy of temporal origin. She started her seizures since early childhood, primarily as pseudo-absences with motionless stare and salivation, than later evolving to generalized tonic-clonic. Frequency of seizures differed, mostly 20-30 a month. None of AED were helpful.
EEG - interictal - showed some repetitive synchronous spiking within right fronto-temporal region.
MRI revealed a mass within right hippocampus.
Pathology - ganglioglioma within right hippocampus
Operated on Sept 2006 - Spencer mode topectomy with amygdalohippocampectomy - seizure free after.
| EEG hardware used: | DigiTrack EEG System |
| Kind of electrodes: | Ag/AgCl 10mm |
| Hardware reference: | Fpz |
| Sampling rate: | 250 Hz |
| Hardware filters: | 0.5-70 Hz |
| Software filters: | 50 Hz notch |
| Other hardware hooked up: | none |
| Patient state during recording: | resting |
| MRI hardware: | SIEMENS Sonata 1.5T |
| Image processing prior to archival: | none |
