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Let the best not be the enemy of the good! Volume 22, numéro 1, February 2020

TEST YOURSELF

(1) Which of the following in your opinion is the most valuable tool for making a diagnosis of epilepsy and determining if it is focal or generalized?

A. Clinical history and examination

B. EEG

C. Cranial MRI

D. PET scan

 

(2) Which of the following categories of patients do you think a routine 40-minute interictal EEG may provide the most useful information with a bearing on management?

A. PNES

B. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy

C. Focal epilepsy due to a frontal calcified lesion in a patient who has become seizure-free on one AED

D. Focal drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Answers

(1) A.

 

(2) B.

 

 

 

 

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