Tailoring of Cortical Excisions for Frontal Lobe Epilepsy
| Autor: | Theodore Rasmussen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Cerebral Cortex
Male Temporal cortex medicine.medical_specialty Frontal cortex Adolescent Epilepsy Frontal Lobe General Medicine Corpus callosum medicine.disease Temporal Lobe Surgery Epilepsy medicine.anatomical_structure Neurology Frontal lobe Cortical resection Cortex (anatomy) medicine Humans Female Neurology (clinical) Seizure activity Psychology Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques. 18:606-610 |
| ISSN: | 2057-0155 0317-1671 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0317167100032819 |
| Popis: | Follow-up data of 2 to 49 years' duration are presented on 257 patients with cortical excisions for non-tumoral frontal lobe epilepsy. Twenty-six percent have become and remained seizure free. Another 30% have had a marked reduction of seizure tendency. Thus a total of 56% have had a long term complete or marked reduction of seizure tendency after the cortical resection. The cortical resections were classified into 5 regional categories. Forty-seven percent of patients with anterior frontal resections were in the seizure free category, as were 35% of patients with excisions limited to the convexity cortex and 32% of patients with maximal or near maximal frontal lobectomy. Only 18% of patients with frontal parasaggital excisions were in the seizure free category, and 10% of the patients who had excision of frontal cortex plus limited excision of adjacent central and/or temporal cortex. |
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