Vitamins, not surgery: spinal fluid testing in hemispheric epilepsy.

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Metabolic testing in spinal fluid is not routinely obtained in every patient with refractory epilepsy or status epilepticus. A 9-month-old girl who was referred for surgical treatment of refractory status epilepticus suggestive of a right hemispheric focus; cranial magnetic resonance imaging was unremarkable. The patient received a metabolic evaluation according to institutional protocol and was noted to have a...

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