About this trial
What's the clinical value of high-density flexible electrocorticography (ECoG) for guiding the resection of epileptogenic zone (EZ) in epilepsy surgery?
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Aged 3 to 60 years.
Diagnosed with drug-resistant epilepsy, defined as persistent seizures despite treatment with two or more appropriately selected, adequately dosed, and adequately tried antiseizure medications.
Diagnosed with focal epilepsy after a standard presurgical epilepsy evaluation and considered suitable for resective epilepsy surgery.
Preoperative Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score ≥ 24.
Disqualifiers
Suspected mesial temporal lobe epilepsy after multidisciplinary presurgical evaluation.
History of any previous neurosurgical craniotomy before epilepsy surgery.
Severe psychiatric, cognitive, or psychological disorder that prevents participation in the study or completion of follow-up.
Contraindication to surgery.
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- High-density Flexible Electrocorticography
Treatment groups
Sponsors and collaborators
Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Lead sponsor
Beijing Neurosurgical Institute
Sponsor institution
Beijing Fengtai Hospital
Collaborator
Peking University First Hospital
Collaborator
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Collaborator
Beijing Xinzhida Neural Technology Co., Ltd
Collaborator
Beijing Neurosurgical Institute
Collaborator