title: Extracranial EEG work-up in epilepsy surgery: usefulness and limitations.
abstract: Extracranial interictal and ictal EEG provide essential information to diagnosis, seizure/syndrome classification and focus localization. Combined with structural and dynamic neuro-imaging and neuropsychological data, extracranial EEG will often provide sufficient information in preoperative work-up for temporal lobectomy. Ictal EEG recordings are essential to confirm the diagnosis and classification and, above all, to exclude patients with significant non-epileptic seizures from further surgical evaluation. The advantage of sphenoidal electrodes lies first and foremost in a more favorable signal/noise ratio, while their superiority to closely placed special scalp electrodes are more debatable.
authors.affiliation: Dianalund Epilepsy Hospital, Denmark.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alving
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011300:Preoperative Care