Stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) in children surgically cured of their epilepsy

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• 作者：Delphine Taussig^a ; ^{delphinetaussig@yahoo.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Axel Lebas^b ; ¹ ; Mathilde Chipaux^a ; ¹ ; Maryvonne Jan^c ; Martine Fohlen^a ; Christine Bulteau^a ; ^d ; ^e ; ^f ; Nathalie Dorison^a ; Sarah Ferrand-Sorbets^a ; Olivier Delalande^a ; Georg Dorfmü ; ller^a ; ^d ; ^e ; ^f
• 关键词：Epilepsy surgery ; Invasive explorations ; Stereo-electroencephalography ; Electrical stimulations ; Children ; Focal cortical resections
• 刊名：Neurophysiologie Clinique / Clinical Neurophysiology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：46
• 期：1
• 页码：3-15
• 全文大小：4814 K

文摘

SEEG in children has a low morbidity and leads to a good surgical outcome, in particular in younger patients. We analysed, in detail, the SEEG data of patients that were subsequently cured by surgery.

Methods

We selected the 48 children explored between 2009 and 2013 in our centre and surgically cured after SEEG-based resections with at least one-year follow-up. We retrospectively studied demographic and surgical data and paid particular attention to the data acquired during the invasive recording. Moreover, we compared the children younger than 5 years of age (group 1: 17 children) to those older than 5 years of age at the time of exploration (group 2: 31 patients).

Results

SEEG was well tolerated. Only one patient had slight intracerebral bleeding seen on the post-operative CT-scan without any clinical consequence and which did not prevent the recording. SEEG explored at least four lobes in 59% of patients, either because of a suspected very widespread epileptogenic zone or because of the lack of a precise hypothesis. Auras were recorded only in group 2 (32% of patients, P = 0.0009). Despite these difficulties, SEEG led to tailored resections including multilobar resections in 14% and infralobar resections in 69% of patients. The electrical pattern of seizures had no particularities as compared with adults. Interictal spikes and slow waves outside the resection zone were significantly less frequent in group 1 (P = 0.02). In symptomatic epilepsies, the lesion matched the irritative zone in only 11% of patients and the ictal onset zone in 32% respectively.

Conclusion

Our study confirms the low morbidity of SEEG in children. SEEG can disclose a limited epileptogenic zone. Our data suggest that the epileptic network is less complex in younger patients, which has to be confirmed by a quantitative analysis of SEEG signals.