Low prevalence of neural autoantibodies in perioperative cerebrospinal fluid samples of epilepsy surgery patients: A multicenter prospective study.

Hana MojžišováMartin ElišákDavid KrýslJitka HanzalováAdam KalinaMarko PetržalkaIrena DoležalováMatěj ČervenkaBarbora CvičkováRobert LeškoJan ŠroubekDaniela SochůrkováJan HemzaEva BrichtováJustina DargvainieneZdeněk VojtěchMilan BrázdilKlaus-Peter WandingerFrank LeypoldtPetr Marusič

Published in: Epilepsia (2024)

Neural autoantibodies are a rare finding in perioperatively collected serum and CSF of our cohort of mostly MRI-lesional epilepsy surgery patients. Confirmatory testing is essential to avoid overinterpretation of autoantibody-positive findings.

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