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Tailoring of Cortical Excisions for Frontal Lobe Epilepsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Theodore Rasmussen
Theodore Rasmussen*
Affiliation:
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, Montreal
*
3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4
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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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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue S4 , November 1991 , pp. 606 - 610
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Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1991

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