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Long-term outcomes in MRI-negative patients with epilepsy

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Patients with drug-resistant focal epilepsy who lack structural abnormalities on MRI constitute a challenge in presurgical work-up. A longitudinal single-centre study of long-term seizure outcomes in patients with nonlesional epilepsy showed that 59% of the cohort was free from disabling seizures 10 years after resective epilepsy surgery. These results are encouraging and valuable for patient counselling.

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  1. Kristina Malmgren and David Krýsl are at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Blå Stråket 7, 413 45 Gothenburg, Sweden.,

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Malmgren, K., Krýsl, D. Long-term outcomes in MRI-negative patients with epilepsy. Nat Rev Neurol 13, 132–133 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneurol.2017.24

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