Stereotactic electroencephalography

JRCT ID: jRCTs052180166

Registered date:26/03/2019

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Complete
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: Epilepsy
• Date of first enrollment: 27/10/2016
• Target sample size: 5
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): None

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: To evaluate efficiency of stereotactic electroencephalogram by recording electrocorticogram and electrosubcorticogram

Secondary Outcome

1) Identification of epileptic focus of the deep part of the brain
2) Improvement of results of epilepsy surgery

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: >= 16age old
• Age maximum: <= 75age old
• Gender: Both

Include criteria

1. 16-75 years of age
2. patients with medically intractable epilepsy
3. Need to focus resection
4. Difficulty in identification of epileptic focus by using conventional investigations
5. Understanding of the explanation and confirmation of the consent
6. patients in whom pre- and postoperative MRI can be performed

Exclude criteria

1. patients with uncontrollable respiratory or cardiovascular diseases
2. compromised host
3. patients who will not be able to visit hospital 2 years after operation
4. Brain dysfunction or mental disorder
5. patients with hypermotor seizure
6. patients with pacemaker
7. patients with metals in the body that are not confirmed to perform MRI

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: Kikuchi Takayuki
• Secondary Sponsor: Yukihiro Yamao