Abstract:Background: Drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) is a commonly faced problem in epilepsy practice associated with great psychosocial consequences. This work aimed to study the role of seizure semiology analysis (SSA), long-term EEG monitoring, high field strength MRI, and positron emission tomography (PET) scan of the brain to confirm the diagnosis of true-RDE cases as well as seizure onset zone (SOZ) localization. Methods: This study was conducted on 67 DRE patients subjected to SSA, long-term video EEG, 3-Tesla MRI… Show more
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