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Neurology, Vol 50, Issue 6 1765-1771, Copyright © 1998 by American Academy of Neurology

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EEG findings in frontal lobe epilepsies

RE Bautista, DD Spencer and SS Spencer
Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8018, USA.

As a group, epilepsies of frontal lobe origin are thought to be poorly localized using surface EEG recordings. This finding may depend on the specific areas of frontal lobe from which the seizures originate or the pathologic substrate. We reviewed the presurgical surface EEGs of patients with frontal lobe epilepsy who underwent epilepsy surgery. The specific area of the frontal lobe where seizures originated was determined by 1) intracranial ictal EEG recordings, or 2) the presence of a structural lesion, identified by imaging studies in patients who achieved complete seizure control following surgery. We differentiated patients whose seizures began in the dorsolateral frontal convexity from those whose seizures began in the medial frontal region, and we correlated EEG findings in the interictal, postictal, and ictal states with seizure semiology, pathologic substrate, and surgical outcome. Four of nine patients had seizures originating in the dorsolateral frontal convexity and five had medial frontal onset seizures. Patients whose seizures originated from the dorsolateral convexity had focal interictal epileptiform abnormalities that localized to the region of seizure onset. Patients whose seizures began in the medial frontal region had either no interictal epileptiform abnormality or had multifocal epileptiform discharges. Patients whose seizures began in the dorsolateral convexity showed focal electrographic seizure activity that was localizing. This rhythmic fast activity did not appear to be substrate-specific. Patients whose seizure onset localized to the medial frontal region did not show focal electrographic seizure at clinical onset. We conclude that the scalp EEG recordings of frontal lobe epilepsies contain features that enable differentiation of seizures originating from two different regions of the frontal lobe.


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