[Surgical treatment of focal drug-resistant epilepsy associated with temporal lobe encephalocele].

Background: In recent years, temporal lobe encephalocele has become more common in patients with focal drug-resistant epilepsy. Despite available experience, there are still no clear recommendations for choosing the extent of surgery in these patients.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of diagnosis and surgical treatment of focal drug-resistant epilepsy associated with temporal lobe encephalocele.

[Long-term epilepsy-associated tumors].

Objective: The goal of this review is to summarize data concerning radiological and histological diagnosis of epileptogenic tumors, as well as to discuss their surgical treatment.

Material And Methods: PubMed literature database was searched for relevant articles, we also used our own clinical experience.

Results: Benign glioneuronal tumors are the second most common cause of drug resistant epilepsy in adults after hippocampal sclerosis.

Single-word, sentence, and discourse comprehension in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy.

The purpose of this study was to systematically investigate language comprehension in individuals with left and right temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) at different language levels - single word (noun and verb), sentence, and discourse. Neither of the groups with TLE showed difficulties with noun comprehension, whereas verb comprehension performance was significantly lower in individuals with left, but not right TLE as compared to healthy controls. In contrast, sentence and discourse comprehension was overall impaired, irrespective of the lateralization of the epileptogenic focus.

[Pre-surgical Diagnosties in Patients with Intractable epilepsy].

Purpose: To conduct a systematic assessment of scientific publications devoted to pre-surgical examination of patients with intactable epilepsy.

Material And Methods: We found, using PubMed and available Internet search tools, and analyzed 1.414 articles on pre-surgical diagnostics in patients with intractable epilepsy.

[Surgery for intractable epilepsy in a patient with encephalocele of the temporal lobe: a case report].

We describe a case of surgical treatment of intractable temporal epilepsy in a female patient with congenital middle cranial fossa encephalocele. We present clinical-anamnestic and neuroimaging data as well as the microscopic and macroscopic pictures of encephalocele. We analyze outcomes of surgery for this pathology, which have been reported in the literature.