Long term outcome in patients not initially seizure free after resective epilepsy surgery.

Purpose: To assess the long-term seizure outcome and find predictors of outcome for patients who were not initially seizure free 6 months after epilepsy surgery.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all adult patients who underwent epilepsy surgery at the Epilepsy Center Bethel, between 1992 and 2003. There were 266 patients included in this analysis.

Long-term outcome after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery in 434 consecutive adult patients.

Object: The aim of this study was to evaluate the long-term efficacy of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery and potential risk factors for seizure recurrence after surgery.

Methods: This retrospective study included 434 consecutive adult patients who underwent TLE surgery at Bethel Epilepsy Centre between 1991 and 2002.

Results: Hippocampal sclerosis was found in 62% of patients, gliosis in 17.

Outcome of frontal lobe epilepsy surgery in adults.

Our aim is to investigate seizure outcome and prognostic factors after pure frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE) surgery. We retrospectively studied the operative outcome in 97 consecutive adult patients who underwent resective surgery for intractable partial epilepsy between 1991 and 2005. Based on Kaplan-Meier, the probability of an Engel Class I outcome was found to be 54.