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TEMPORAL LOBE SURGERY AROUND THE WORLD Results, Complications, and Mortality
Author(s) -
Jensen Inge
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1975.tb05831.x
Subject(s) - hemiparesis , temporal lobe , epilepsy , medicine , surgery , psychiatry , lesion
This survey covers 2,282 published temporal lobe resections, performed from 1928–1973, all over the world, as treatment of invalidating, drug‐resistant epilepsy. At follow‐up, two‐thirds of the patients were free or almost free from seizures; and over half of those patients who were mentally abnormal before the operation were normalized or had obtained a marked improvement. The operative mortality has always been very low. No operative mortality has been recorded within the last decade. The risk of severe complications such as persistent hemiparesis and/or a complete homonymous hemianopia has decreased markedly, and is now only a few per cent.