Anterior Temporal Lobectomy
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Hemispherotomy: efficacy and analysis of seizure recurrence.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECT: Hemispherotomy generally is performed in hemiparetic patients with severe, intractable epilepsy arising from one cerebral hemisphere. In this study, the authors evaluate the efficacy of hemispherotomy and present an analysis of the factors ... Read more...

Risk factors for early post-operative psychiatric symptoms in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: De-novo psychiatric symptoms may develop within 3 months after a temporal lobectomy for epilepsy. The objective of this study was to identify presurgical risk factors for psychiatric symptoms. METHODS: Twenty-seven patients who had a ... Read more...

Refractory seizures: try additional antiepileptic drugs (after two have failed) or go directly to early surgery evaluation?

30 Aug 2009 The goal of antiepileptic therapy is to achieve long-term seizure freedom with minimal or no adverse effects. Current evidence suggests that in many patients who have failed two appropriate antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) because of lack of efficacy, the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Anterior Temporal Lobectomy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Hemispherotomy: efficacy and analysis of seizure recurrence. 29 Sep 2009
• Risk factors for early post-operative psychiatric symptoms in patients undergoing epilepsy surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy. 30 Aug 2009
• Refractory seizures: try additional antiepileptic drugs (after two have failed) or go directly to early surgery evaluation? 30 Aug 2009
• Language development before and after temporal surgery in children with intractable epilepsy. 6 Aug 2009
• [Guidelines for the surgical treatment of the movement disorders and epilepsy. Grupo de Cirugía Funcional de la Sociedad Española de Neurocirugía (SENEC)] 30 Jul 2009
• Bilateral and independent Broca areas confirmed by Wada test and functional magnetic resonance imaging. 29 Jun 2009
• The brain collector. 24 Jun 2009
• Gamma knife radiosurgery for the treatment of recurrent seizures after incomplete anterior temporal lobectomy. 5 Jun 2009
• Morbidity in epilepsy surgery: an experience based on 2449 epilepsy surgery procedures from a single institution. 30 May 2009
• Long-term outcome after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in 434 consecutive adult patients. 30 May 2009
• Endfolium sclerosis in temporal lobe epilepsy diagnosed preoperatively by 3-tesla magnetic resonance imaging. 30 May 2009
• Failure of temporal lobe resection for epilepsy in patients with mesial temporal sclerosis: results and treatment options. 30 May 2009
• Memory outcome following transsylvian selective amygdalohippocampectomy in 62 patients with hippocampal sclerosis. 30 May 2009
• Predictors of individual visual memory decline after unilateral anterior temporal lobe resection. 24 May 2009
• Defining Meyer's loop-temporal lobe resections, visual field deficits and diffusion tensor tractography. 19 May 2009
• Pre- and postoperative fMRI and clinical memory performance in temporal lobe epilepsy. 20 Apr 2009
• Epilepsy surgery outcomes in temporal lobe epilepsy with a normal MRI. 4 Apr 2009
• [Characteristics of clinical presentation, diagnosis, and surgical treatment of temporal partial epilepsy] 30 Mar 2009
• A lifetime psychiatric history predicts a worse seizure outcome following temporal lobectomy. Mar 2009
• Epilepsy surgery in the elderly: an unusual case of a 75-year-old man with recurrent status epilepticus. 25 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Anterior Temporal Lobectomy'

Definition: A neurosurgical procedure that removes the anterior TEMPORAL LOBE including the medial temporal structures of CEREBRAL CORTEX; AMYGDALA; HIPPOCAMPUS; and the adjacent PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS. This procedure is generally used for the treatment of intractable temporal epilepsy (EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE).

Descriptor UI: D038481

Alternative terms: Anterior Temporal Lobectomy; Lobectomy, Anterior Temporal;

Related Mesh Headings: Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E04.525.044;

History Note: 2003