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. 2017 Sep 1;7(7):424–442. doi: 10.1089/brain.2016.0479

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

  All patients (N = 40)
Age (years), mean (SD), N = 39 11.6 (5.3)
Male, N (%) 23 (58)
Handedness, N (%), N = 35
 Left 5 (14)
 Right 27 (77)
 Othera 3 (9)
Seizure classification, N (%)
 CLRE 9 (23)
 SLRE 31 (78)
Primary etiology, N (%)
 Focal cortical dysplasia 14 (35)
 Cryptogenic 9 (22.5)
 Mesial temporal sclerosis 4 (10)
 Tuberous sclerosis 3 (8)
 Other (etiologies with only one to two patients) 10 (25)
rs-fMRI score, N (%)
 No abnormality 2 (5)
 Sublobar lesion 31 (77.5)
 Lobe 5 (12.5)
 Hemisphere 2 (5)
ECoG, N (%)
 No rs-fMRI-detected abnormality 2 (5)
 Abnormality detected by rs-fMRI 38 (95)
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Other includes one ambidextrous, one neither, and one not yet handed.

CLRE, cryptogenic localization-related epilepsy; ECoG, electrocorticography; rs-fMRI, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging; SD, standard deviation; SLRE, symptomatic localization-related epilepsy.