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Whether and how a patient should be studied with MRI depends on the type of the seizures and the epilepsy syndromes. Focal and generalized seizures and non-epileptic conditions mimicking epileptic seizures have to be considered.
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Urbach, H., Wellmer, J. (2013). Classification of Epileptic Seizures. In: Urbach, H. (eds) MRI in Epilepsy. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2012_553
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