Thursday June 3rd, 2004 15:30-17:30 Hall N/O Discussion Group Presurgical assessment in patients with negative MRI findings.

The article presents information about abstracts of various papers that will be discussed at the Discussion Group of the 6th European Congress on Epileptology that will be held on June 3, 2004. One of the papers that will be discussed is "Presurgical Strategies in Non-Lesional Temporal Lobe Patients," by W. Serles. Up to 20% of refractory epilepsy patients have negative MRI. Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy represent a considerable group in epilepsy centres performing epilepsy surgery. Only 30-50% of these are reported to become seizure free after temporal lobectomy. Other papers that will be discussed are "Value of Intracranial Recordings in Non-Lesional Patients," by G. Alarcon and "Value of Nuclear Medicine Techniques in Non-Lesional Patients," by A.M. Siegel.