Predicting Epileptogenic Tubers in Patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

Inclusion Criteria

• •(1) male or female patients aged ≥6 months; (2) patients meeting the diagnostic criteria for TSC according to Northrup's guidelines;17 (3) patients in whom the clinical evaluation determined that a single surgical target, or hypothesized primary EZ, was identified by a multidisciplinary specialist team at epilepsy centers of Beijing Children's Hospital, PLA General Hospital, or Shenzhen Children's Hospital in China; (4) patients who underwent resective surgery between July 2016 and June 2023, with a 1-year follow-up completed by June 2024; and (5) availability of patients with available preoperative and postoperative MRI T2-Flair imaging.