title: Advanced MR imaging of cortical dysplasia with or without neoplasm: a report of two cases.
abstract: We herein describe two cases of patients with epilepsy with occipital lobe cortical dysplasia who were studied with both MR spectroscopy and MR diffusion imaging in addition to conventional MR imaging. Greater diffusion abnormalities, as well as more marked decreases in N-acetylaspartate, were observed to occur in the patient harboring a low grade neoplasm within an area of cortical dysplasia than in the patient with cortical dysplasia alone.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA.
authors.forename: Jay J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Pillai
authors.forename: Richard B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Hessler
authors.forename: Jerry D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Allison
authors.forename: Yong D
authors.initials: YD
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Mark R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lavin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D009421:Nervous System Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis; D011859:Radiography