The Early Identification of Candidates for Epilepsy Surgery
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The early identification of candidates for epilepsy surgery.
The effectiveness of resective surgery for the treatment of carefully selected patients with medically intractable, localization-related epilepsy is clear. Seizure-free rates following temporal lobectomy are consistently 65% to 70% in adults and 68% to 78% in children. Extratemporal resections less commonly lead to a seizure-free outcome, although one recent childhood series reported a seizure-...
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OBJECTIVE To provide a descriptive analysis of the prevalence and pattern of psychiatric morbidity among 300 consecutive epileptic patients refractive to treatment and admitted during a six year period for evaluation of their candidature for surgery. METHODS Patients underwent detailed observation of their seizure and standardised psychiatric assessment. Patients were considered to be refract...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Neurology
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0003-9942
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.58.10.1543