Population-Based Analysis of Morbidity and Mortality Following Surgery for Intractable Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in the United States | Zendy

Shearwood McClelland | Zendy; Hongfei Guo | Zendy; Kolawole S. Okuyemi | Zendy

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Population-Based Analysis of Morbidity and Mortality Following Surgery for Intractable Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in the United States

Author(s) -

Shearwood McClelland,

Hongfei Guo,

Kolawole S. Okuyemi

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

archives of neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3687

pISSN - 0003-9942

DOI - 10.1001/archneurol.2011.7

Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , confidence interval , population , comorbidity , epilepsy , cohort , adverse effect , retrospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , marital status , pediatrics , psychiatry , physics , environmental health , optics

To assess the morbidity of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery on a nationwide level in order to address reservations regarding the morbidity of anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) for TLE despite class I evidence demonstrating the superiority of ATL over continued medical therapy.

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