Preoperative Indicators for Optimal Surgical Outcome for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

摘要: This title must be defined at the outset because it is obvious that under circumstances of our present knowledge a firm model cannot constructed for surgical treatment clinical condition with so many variables. Rather we are pointing out some factors observed during 25-year experience UCLA Medical Center which hope will con-firmed by others and prove to clinically useful. The concepts psychomotor epilepsy, temporal lobe partial complex epilepsy not same. main components features such as autonomic auras, staring states, clouding consciousness, automatisms poorly overlapping in regard topographical origin brain. Therefore, referring depth electrode studies spontaneous seizures an electrographic propagation limbic system, microscopic pathology removed successful alleviation follow-up periods 2–25 years. There also unsuccessful cases illustrate points made.