Determining surgical candidacy in temporal lobe epilepsy

A Mansouri, A Fallah, TA Valiante - Epilepsy research and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common form of adult epilepsy that is amenable to
surgical treatment. In the carefully selected patient, excellent seizure outcome can be …

[PDF][PDF] Neurofunctional evaluation strategy for presurgical selection of temporal lobe epilepsy patients

LMM Chacón, CS Catasús, JE Bender… - MEDICC …, 2009 - medigraphic.com
A Neurofunctional Evaluation Strategy for Presurgical Selection of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Patients Page 1 29 MEDICC Review, Winter 2009, Vol 11, No 1 Original Scientific Articles …

Improving Seizure Outcomes after Epilepsy Surgery: Time to Break the “Find and Cut” Mold: Epilepsy Surgery Outcomes

L Jehi - Epilepsy Currents, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Drug-resistant focal epilepsy has been treated with resective brain surgery for close to a
century. In 1952, Penfield and Baldwin (1) reported the seizure outcomes of patients …

Resective temporal lobe surgery in refractory temporal lobe epilepsy: prognostic factors of postoperative seizure outcome

V Borger, M Hamed, J Taube, G Aydin, I Ilic… - Journal of …, 2021 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is one of the most common forms of epilepsy. In
approximately 30% of patients, seizures are refractory to drug treatment. Despite the …

[HTML][HTML] The persistent under-utilization of epilepsy surgery

DJ Englot - Epilepsy research, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I would like to thank Kaiboriboon and colleagues for their manuscript entitled “Epilepsy
Surgery in the United States: Analysis of Data from the National Association of Epilepsy …

Mesial temporal lobectomy: post-surgical seizure frequency

L Jehi - Textbook of epilepsy surgery, 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
Mesial temporal lobectomy: post-surgical seizure frequency Page 1 Introduction Temporal
lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common type of partial epilepsy in adults.Seizures arise …

Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery failures: predictors of seizure recurrence, yield of reevaluation, and outcome following reoperation

LE Jehi, DC Silveira, W Bingaman, I Najm - Journal of neurosurgery, 2010 - thejns.org
Object The authors provide a systematic analysis of electroclinical characteristics in patients
with persistent seizures following temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery and identify ideal …

Temporal lobe epilepsy surgery failures: a review

A Harroud, A Bouthillier, AG Weil… - Epilepsy research and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) are refractory to antiepileptic drugs in about 30%
of cases. Surgical treatment has been shown to be beneficial for the selected patients but …

Beyond pharmacotherapy: surgical management

P Ryvlin - Epilepsia, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To review the recent advances in the field of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery.
Results: TLE surgery has recently demonstrated a highly significant superiority over optimal …

Neuroimaging for patient selection for medial temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: Part 1 Structural neuroimaging

P Stylianou, C Hoffmann, I Blat, S Harnof - Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
The objective of part one of this review is to present the structural neuroimaging techniques
that are currently used to evaluate patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), and to discuss …