Is Focal Cortical Dysplasia/Epilepsy Caused by Somatic <i>MTOR</i> Mutations Always a Unilateral Disorder?

Guerrini, Renzo; Cavallin, Mara; Pippucci, Tommaso; Rosati, Anna; Bisulli, Francesca; Dimartino, Paola; Barba, Carmen; Garbelli, Rita; Maria Buccoliero, Anna; Tassi, Laura; Conti, Valerio

doi:10.1212/nxg.0000000000000540

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Is Focal Cortical Dysplasia/Epilepsy Caused by Somatic MTOR Mutations Always a Unilateral Disorder?

Published in Neurology Genetics • Dec 10, 2020

Authors:

Renzo Guerrini

Mara Cavallin

Tommaso Pippucci

Abstract

Objective To alert about the wide margin of unpredictability that distribution of somatic MTOR mosaicism may have in the brain and the risk for independent epileptogenesis arising from the seemingly healthy contralateral hemisphere after complete removal of epileptogenic focal cortical dysplasia (FC...

Subject

Cortical dysplasia

Epileptogenesis

Epilepsy

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