The curse of in silico transformation from Palmini's into the ILAE classification system of focal cortical dysplasia: A critical comment

摘要

In their article, Fauser et al. (2013) could detect neither clinical nor outcome differences when comparing patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) with patients with focal cortical dysplasia alone (FCD International League Against Epilepsy [ILAE] type I) or when associated with hippocampal sclerosis (HS; FCD ILAE type Ilia). One hundred patients with TLE and "histopathology" diagnosis of "focal cortical dysplasia" were retrieved from their hospital files. Histopathology diagnosis of FCD was classified originally according to Palmini et al. (2004) and transformed into the 2011 ILAE system (Blumcke et al., 2011).