Laterality of the epileptogenic activity as obtained by 1H-MRS data | The %AF of the mean metabolites ratios | ||||||
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NAA/Cho | NAA/Cr | NAA/(Cho + Cr) | MI/NAA | Glx/NAA | Glx/Cr | ||
Trivial %AF with no lateralization (1/26; 3.85%) | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |
%AF with lateralization (25/26; 96.15% | Right lateralization (12; 46.15%) | − 1.5–37.5 (25.2 ± 2.2) | − 1.5–30 (24.6 ± 5) | − 1.5–29.8 (27.4 ± 1.7) | − 1.49–24 (20.5 ± 2.3) | − 1.2–30.6 (20.0 ± 1.8) | − 1.1–38.9 (25.1 ± 13) |
Left lateralization (13; 50%) | 15–37 (26.0 ± 1.1) | 12–31.4 (25.1 ± 4.4) | 12–30.2 (29.1 ± 1.5) | 10.5–35.7 (22.0 ± 12) | 13.9–30.5 (21.5 ± 11) | 12–30.01 (26.2 ± 12) | |
ANOVA | F | 66.44 | 149.613 | 27.87 | 39.41 | 1.462 | 1.104 |
P value | < 0.001* | < 0.002* | < 0.001* | < 0.01* | 0.02* | 0.03* |