Journal article

Clinical and imaging heterogeneity of polymicrogyria: A study of 328 patients

RJ Leventer, A Jansen, DT Pilz, N Stoodley, C Marini, F Dubeau, J Malone, LA Mitchell, S Mandelstam, IE Scheffer, SF Berkovic, F Andermann, E Andermann, R Guerrini, WB Dobyns

Brain | Published : 2010

Abstract

Polymicrogyria is one of the most common malformations of cortical development and is associated with a variety of clinical sequelae including epilepsy, intellectual disability, motor dysfunction and speech disturbance. It has heterogeneous clinical manifestations and imaging patterns, yet large cohort data defining the clinical and imaging spectrum and the relative frequencies of each subtype are lacking. The aims of this study were to determine the types and relative frequencies of different polymicrogyria patterns, define the spectrum of their clinical and imaging features and assess for clinical/imaging correlations. We studied the imaging features of 328 patients referred from six centr..

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