Table 1.
Participants' demographic and clinical characteristics.
|
FBTCS-Y (19) |
FBTCS-N (8) |
Controls (20) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Age* (M ± SD) | 38 ± 10.88 | 46 ± 15.21 | 37 ± 11.42 |
| Sex (M / F) | 8 / 11 | 3 / 5 | 5 / 15 |
| Onset side (L / R / U) | 8 / 9 / 2 | 3 / 3 / 2 | NA |
| Onset age (M ± SD) | 18 ± 14.36 | 30 ± 20.96 | NA |
| Disease duration (M ± SD) | 27 ± 16.14 | 22 ± 12.31 | NA |
| Drug resistant (Y / N) | 14 / 5 | 4 / 4 | NA |
| Auras | 11 | 7 | NA |
| MRI findings | |||
| Normal | 11 | 4 | NA |
| MCD | 4 | 1 | NA |
| CD/FCD | 2 | 1 | NA |
| Hippocampal cyst | 1 (R) | 1 (L) | NA |
| Various (PVH, DNET) | 1 | 1 | NA |
| Epilepsy classification | |||
| Frontal (L / R) | 2 / 2 | 0 | NA |
| Temporal (L / R) | 1 / 2 | 0 | NA |
| Parietal (L / R) | 1 / 1 | 2 (R) | NA |
| Occipital (L / R) | 1 / 1 | 1 (L) | NA |
| Frontotemporal (L / R / U) | 3 / 2 | 1 / 1 / 1 | NA |
| Frontocentral (L / R) | 1 (L) | 1 (L) | NA |
| Unknown | 2 | 1 | NA |
Key: L, left; R, right, U, unknown; “*”, age at MRI scan; CD, cortical dysplasia. DNET, dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumor; FCD, focal cortical dysplasia; MCD, malformations of cortical development; PVH, periventricular heterotopia. Two patients and one control were removed after failing the QC tests.