PMID: 2097886Jan 1, 1990Paper

Temporal lobectomy

Acta neurochirurgica. Supplementum
J Bidzinski

Abstract

The indications for, and results of the author's personal series of 486 resective operations in epileptic patients are reviewed, together with the long term results of 286 patients undergoing temporal lobectomy. Almost 50% of such patients were seizure free when followed for two to thirty years.

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