Utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in presurgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy: A multicenter study.
Mirja SteinbrennerJohn Sidney DuncanJohn C DicksonChaturbhuj RathoreBettina WächterNafi AygunRamshekhar N MenonAshalatha RadhakrishnanMartin HoltkampMaria Ilyas-FeldmannPublished in: Epilepsia (2022)
This is the largest reported cohort of patients with DRE who received presurgical FDG-PET, showing that FDG-PET is a useful diagnostic tool. MRI-negative and MRI-positive cases with concordant FDG-PET results (with either EEG or MRI) had a comparable outcome after surgery. These findings confirm the significance of FDG-PET in presurgical epilepsy diagnostics.