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The cornerstone of lesion detection in chronic epilepsy is structural imaging, mainly magnetic resonance imaging. Metabolic information from magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) might serve as an additional or as a surrogate marker for the epileptogenic lesion. MRS might also help to differentiate similarly appearing lesions from one another; it might detect contralateral/remote dysfunction. However, the clinical role of MRS is unclear, albeit another non-invasive diagnostic tool.
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Woermann, F.G. (2013). Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Chronic Epilepsy. In: Urbach, H. (eds) MRI in Epilepsy. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2012_761
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