Utility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in presurgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy: A multicenter study.

Mirja Steinbrenner John Sidney Duncan John C Dickson Chaturbhuj RathoreBettina WächterNafi AygunRamshekhar N MenonAshalatha Radhakrishnan Martin Holtkamp Maria Ilyas-Feldmann

Published 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.

Keyphrases

positron emission tomography
computed tomography
pet ct
contrast enhanced
pet imaging
magnetic resonance imaging
diffusion weighted imaging
functional connectivity
resting state