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Table 1 Complete list of all imaging diagnoses encountered in the cohort

From: Imaging in medically refractory epilepsy at 3 Tesla: a 13-year tertiary adult epilepsy center experience

Imaging diagnosis

Number of patients

% of cohort

MRI negative

262

35.50

Mesiotemporal sclerosis

132 (20 bilateral cases)

17.89

Concomitant mesiotemporal sclerosis (dual pathology)

64

8.67

Encephalomalacia and gliosis

79

10.70

Focal cortical dysplasia

47

6.37

Isolated enlargement of the amygdala

40

5.42

Enlarged amygdala with involvement of surrounding structures

8

1.08

Tumor (18 DNET, 11 LGG, 3 Ganglioglioma, 2 PXA, 1 choroid plexus papilloma within the choroid fissure)

35

4.74

Cavernoma

22

2.98

Polymicrogyria

14

1.90

Periventricular nodular heterotopic gray matter

13

1.76

Subcortical nodular heterotopic gray matter

2

0.27

Band heterotopia

6

0.81

Ulegyria

12

1.63

Perinatal hypoxic gliosis/encephalomalacia without ulegyria

7

0.95

Encephalocele

10

1.36

Hippocampal malrotation

9

1.22

White matter abnormalities in the anterior temporal lobe

8

1.08

Cortical siderosis

3

0.41

Mass effect onto hippocampus

3

0.41

Tuberous sclerosis

4

0.54

Rasmussen's encephalitis

3

0.41

Neurocysticercosis

2

0.27

Closed lip schizencephaly

2

0.27

Pachygyria, Hypothalamic hamartoma, Dandy-Walker variant, Dyke-Davidoff-Masson, Diffuse axonal injury with cortical hemorrhage, Hemimegalencephaly, Limbic encephalitis, Neurofibromatosis type I, Diffuse cortical diffusion restriction, Dysmyelination with anteroposterior gradient, Diffuse cortical thinning, Arteriovenous malformation with postradiation gliosis, Pontine osmotic myelinolysis, Remote anterior callosotomy, Meningeoangiomatosis

1 each

0.14