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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2021 Jul 29;62(10):2372–2384. doi: 10.1111/epi.17025

Table 1.

Patients profile

Patients profile
Total number of patients 19
Mean age, years (range) 12.8 (5–17)
Male patients, n (%) 10 (52.6)
Left-hemispheric epilepsy, n (%) 13 (68.4)
Mean number of antiepileptic drugs 1.9
MRI findings
 Tumor, n (%) 6 (31.6)
 Dysplasia, n (%) 1 (5.2)
 No mass lesion, n (%) 12 (63.2)
  [Pathology in patients with no MRI-visible mass lesion]
   [*Gliosis + Hippocampal neuronal loss, n (%)] 8 (42.1)
   [Gliosis alone, n (%)] 2 (10.5)
   [*Gliosis + Hippocampal neuronal loss + Dysplasia, n (%)] 1 (5.2)
   [Gliosis + Dysplasia, n (%)] 1 (5.2)
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Nine patients showed pathological findings consistent with a diagnosis of hippocampal sclerosis. MRI: magnetic resonance imaging.