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Clinical outcome after complete or partial cortical resection for intractable epilepsy
- Source :
- Neurology. 37(10)
- Publication Year :
- 1987
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Abstract
- This is the first epilepsy surgery series to analyze the definition of “completeness” of resection, based solely on results of chronic scalp and subdural EEG recording. When patients had complete removal of all cortical areas with ictal and interictal epileptiform discharges, the clinical outcome was usually good. When areas with epileptiform discharges were left behind, good outcome was significantly less frequent. This correlation between complete resection and good outcome was independent of the presence or absence of CT-detected structural lesions or sharp waves on post-resection electrocorticography. These results support completeness of resection, defined by prolonged extraoperative EEG, as an important factor in seizure surgery.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Intractable epilepsy
Electroencephalography
Resection
Epilepsy
Postoperative Complications
Medicine
Humans
Surgical Wound Infection
Ictal
Epilepsy surgery
Child
Electrocorticography
Cerebral Cortex
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.disease
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Scalp
Child, Preschool
Female
Neurology (clinical)
business
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00283878
- Volume :
- 37
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f7a55a1f153f27d6f17481414ab88ea2