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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of patients with focal cortical dysplasia and healthy controls

From: Alterations of structural connectivity and structural co-variance network in focal cortical dysplasia

 

Patients with focal cortical dysplasia (N = 37)

Healthy controls (N = 35)

p-value

Age, years (± SD)

28.0 (± 9.8)

25.5 (± 2.6)

0.137

Male, n (%)

20 (54.0)

21 (60.0)

0.613

Age of seizure onset, years (interquartile range)

14 (11–23)

  

Duration of epilepsy, months (interquartile range)

78 (12–180)

  

EEG epileptiform discharges, n (%)

37 (100.0)

  

ASM load (interquartile range)

1.4 (0.6–2.5)

  

FCD side

  Right side, n (%)

16 (43.2)

  

  Left side, n (%)

20 (54.1)

  

  Both sides, n (%)

1 (2.7)

  

FCD Location

  Frontal lobe, n (%)

16 (43.2)

  

  Temporal lobe, n (%)

15 (40.5)

  

  Parietal lobe, n (%)

3 (8.1)

  

  Occipital lobe, n (%)

3 (8.1)

  

  Transmantle sign, n (%)

10 (27.0)

  
  1. SD standard deviation; EEG electroencephalography; ASM anti-seizure medication; FCD focal cortical dysplasia