Prevalence of MRI abnormalities in people with epilepsy in rural China.

Indran DavagnanamZhibin Chen MBiostatChandrashekar HoskoteDing DingBin YangYingli WangTaiping WangWenling LiJohn S DuncanWenzhi WangJosemir W SanderPatrick Kwan

Published in: Neurology (2020)

More than one-third of people with chronic epilepsy in rural China have potentially epileptogenic lesions identifiable on brain MRI, with two-thirds fulfilling the definition of pharmacoresistance. These findings highlight the magnitude of the unmet needs for epilepsy surgery in China.

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