[Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy. A 4-year follow-up evaluation of VNS treatment efficacy].

Objectives: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an alternative non-destructive surgical treatment for patients with medically intractable epilepsy. Neither the rationale nor proper indications for this treatment modality have been fully established yet.

Aim Of The Study: To assess the long-term efficacy of chronic VNS.

[Surgical outcome of temporal lobe epilepsy].

Results of the surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy--Authors present their own experience in the surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. 403 patients were operated upon. The age of the patients was not limited.