Open AccessSeizure Outcomes in Occipital Lobe and Posterior Quadrant Epilepsy Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Author(s) -
Stephen C. Harward,
William Chen,
John D. Rolston,
Michael M. Haglund,
Dario J. Englot
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
neurosurgery/neurosurgery online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.455
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1081-1281
pISSN - 0148-396X
DOI - 10.1093/neuros/nyx158
Subject(s) - medicine , epilepsy surgery , confidence interval , odds ratio , epilepsy , occipital lobe , meta analysis , magnetic resonance imaging , pathological , temporal lobe , quadrant (abdomen) , surgery , radiology , psychiatry
Occipital lobe epilepsy (OLE) is an uncommon but debilitating focal epilepsy syndrome with seizures often refractory to medical management. While surgical resection has proven a viable treatment, previous studies examining postoperative seizure freedom rates are limited by small sample size and patient heterogeneity, thus exhibiting significant variability in their results.