Table 1.
Clinical Characteristics of the Study Patients.
| Patient 1 | Patient 2 | Patient 3 | Patient 4 | Patient 5 | Patient 6 | Patient 7 | Control 1 | Control 2 | Control 3 | Control 4 | Control 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | Female | Male | Male | Female | Female | Male | Female | Female | Male | Male | Female | Male |
| Type of focal cortical dysplasia |
IIA | IIA | IIA | IIB | IIB | IIB | IIB | |||||
| Location of focal cortical dysplasia |
Right temporal | Left temporal | Right temporal | Right frontal | Left temporal | Right frontal | Right frontal | |||||
| Location of examined brain tissue (control children) |
Left temporal | Right temporal | Right temporal | Right frontal | Left frontal | |||||||
| Reason for death (control children) |
Brain bank: enterocolitis |
Brain bank: sudden death/ arrhythmia 9 mo |
Brain bank: accident |
Brain bank: accident |
Brain bank: sudden death/ arrhythmia |
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| Age at surgery | 3.5 mo | 4.5 mo | 13 y | 6 mo | 4 y | 11 y | 15 y | 1 mo | 9 mo | 4 y | 14 y | 18 y |
| Microvessel count, mean |
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| Area of focal cortical dysplasia |
91.0 | 72.0 | 132.0 | 80.0 | 64.0 | 78.7 | 59.5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Adjacent area | 124.0 | 69.0 | 121.5 | 89.0 | 73.0 | 71.0 | 59.0 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Surrounding area | 60.5 | 30.0 | 63.3 | 39.0 | 36.0 | 34.0 | 31.0 | 24.7 | 27.0 | 34.0 | 39.7 | 46.3 |
| Age at perfusion by magnetic resonance imaging |
2.5 mo | — | — | 21 d | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebral blood flow, mean |
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| Ratio of focal cortical dysplasia, ispilateral/ contralateral |
1.95 | — | — | 1.98 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ratio of cortical gray matter, ispilateral/ contralateral |
1.00 | — | — | 1.01 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ratio of white matter, ispilateral/ contralateral |
0.97 | — | — | 0.92 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ratio of basal ganglia, ispilateral/ contralateral |
1.01 | — | — | 1.02 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |