Table 2.
SPA occurrence in neocortical slices deriving from different lobes of the brain
| All epileptic patients | Epileptic patients without tumour | Epileptic patients with tumour | Tumour patients without epilepsy | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region | n | Ratio of slices generating SPA (%, sum of slices with SPA/sum of all slices) | Ratio of slices generating SPA (%, by patient, mean ± SD) | n | Ratio of slices generating SPA (%, sum of slices with SPA/sum of all slices) | Ratio of slices generating SPA (%, by patient, mean ± SD) | n | Ratio of slices generating SPA (%, sum of slices with SPA/sum of all slices) | Ratio of slices generating SPA (%, by patient, mean ± SD) | n | Ratio of slices generating SPA (%, sum of slices with SPA/sum of all slices) | Ratio of slices generating SPA (%, by patient, mean ± SD) |
| Frontal lobe | 15 | 35.2 | 35.0 ± 29.4 | 6 | 37.1 | 42.7 ± 34.4 | 9 | 34.0 | 29.8 ± 26.5 | 10 | 34.0 | 34.2 ± 29.2 |
| Occipital lobe | 4 | 41.2 | 35.0 ± 27.4 | 1 | 66.7 | 66.7 ± 0.0 | 3 | 27.3 | 24.4 ± 21.4 | 5 | 36.4 | 31.7 ± 31.1 |
| Parietal lobe | 5 | 47.2 | 48.7 ± 25.4 | 3 | 63.6 | 66.1 ± 12.1 | 2 | 21.4 | 22.5 ± 3.5 | 7 | 33.3 | 30.3 ± 19.3 |
| Temporal lobe | 25 | 54.3 | 55.5 ± 27.7 | 16 | 59.3 | 58.5 ± 24.5 | 9 | 46.3 | 50.0 ± 33.7 | 11 | 25.4 | 24.3 ± 27.8 |
| Total | 49 | 46.6 | 46.8 ± 28.9 | 26 | 55.0 | 56.1 ± 25.9 | 23 | 37.1 | 36.4 ± 29.0 | 33 | 31.1 | 29.7 ± 26.3 |