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Corticospinal tract displacement due to a large malformation during cortical development Volume 22, numéro 5, October 2020

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Auteurs
1 Epilepsy Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain
2 Epilepsy Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
3 Epilepsy Unit, Neuro-radiology Department, Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain
4 Epilepsy Unit, Neurology Department, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
* Correspondence: Carla Anciones c/ La Masó 38, 28034 Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid, Spain

A 24-year-old woman with refractory focal epilepsy was evaluated for epilepsy surgery. MRI showed an extensive malformation of cortical development (MCD) that involved the right perisilvian region and compromised the motor gyrus (figure 1). Functional MRI showed an abnormal location of the motor function with anterior displacement of the pyramidal tract on diffusion tensor imaging tractography (figure 2). Motor mapping using stereoelectroencephalography confirmed these findings. Large MCDs can potentially [...]