Focal Epilepsy
- 1 July 1948
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 239 (1) , 1-10
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194807012390101
Abstract
THIS is the second of two papers reviewing surgical experience with 240 epileptic patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the decade 1935 through 1944. These patients in whom the epileptogenic focus could be localized clinically and visualized at operation therefore amount to 21 per cent of the total 1130 hospital admissions for epilepsy. In the preceding paper the relation of seizures to tumor of the brain was discussed.1 Tumors are the most important etiologic factor in this group of epileptic patients with a local operable condition, since approximately a third of those in whom such lesions were situated above . . .Keywords
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