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Skip CTs for breakthrough seizures in chronic epilepsy

Publish date:: December 8, 2019

Key clinical point: Head CTs for breakthrough seizures in chronic epilepsy are useful for known structural triggers such as brain tumors, but they don’t change management for most patients.

Major finding: Imaging was useful in just 3.3% of patients, all with known brain tumors.

Study details: Review of 90 patients

Disclosures: There was no industry funding, and the investigators didn’t have any disclosures.

Citation:

Ali S et al. AES 2019. Abstract 1.213.

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