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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-4-2
pubmed:abstractText
The present study relates clinical and radiological data to histopathological diagnoses in the first 139 patients (children and adults) in the Göteborg Epilepsy Surgery series. Temporal lobe resections were most common (54.0%) followed by frontal lobe (18.0%) and multilobar resections (11.5%). All histopathological specimens were re-evaluated in connection with this study. Parenchymal malformations and atrophic-gliotic lesions were the most common histopathological findings. Microdysgenesis was more common than major malformations (24.5% versus 11.5%). When the MRI scans were blindly re-evaluated the MRI findings correlated with histopathological diagnosis in all of the vascular malformations, in 77.8% of the tumours, in 76.5% of the cases with hippocampal sclerosis but only in 28.6% of the major cortical development malformations. Hemispherectomies carried the best seizure outcome prognosis followed by temporal lobe resections (75.0% versus 57.3% seizure free 2 years after surgery). Vascular malformations carried the best, and microdysgenesis the worst prognosis (76.9% versus 39.4% seizure free).
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0001-6314
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
99
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8-15
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Surgical treatment of epilepsy--clinical, radiological and histopathological findings in 139 children and adults.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Dept. of Neurology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't