Reversibility by Temporal-Lobe Resection of the Behavioral Abnormalities of Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy
- 30 August 1973
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 289 (9) , 451-455
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm197308302890904
Abstract
Aggression and psychosis were frequent preoperative complications in over 250 patients with temporal-lobe epilepsy who underwent unilateral temporal lobectomy. Pathological findings in the resected specimens, which included the hippocampus and the lateral amygdala, were mesial temporal sclerosis in about 1/2, hamartomas in 1/4, miscellaneous lesions such as scars and infarcts in 1/10, and nonspecific lesions in the remainder.Keywords
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