Table 1.
Participant demographics
| TLE (n = 36) |
Controls (n = 96) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | 41.8 ± 12.3 | 37.9 ± 13.4 | 0.09a |
| Sex, % female) | 50.0 | 47.9 | 0.83b |
| Side of surgery, % left | 27.8 | ||
| Duration of epilepsy, years | 22.9 ± 16.7c | ||
| Mesial temporal sclerosis on MRI, % | 66.7 | ||
| Postoperative pathology, % | |||
| Mesial temporal sclerosis | 88.9 | ||
| Mesial temporal gliosis | 11.1 | ||
| PET hypometabolism localization, % | 77.8 | ||
| Interictal EEG localization, % | 69.4 | ||
| Ictal EEG localization, % | 91.7 | ||
| Type of surgery, % ATL | 19.4 | ||
| Time between surgery and post-surgical scan, months | 26.7 ± 17.2 | ||
| Engel outcome at time of post-surgical scan, % | |||
| Engel I | 75.0 | ||
| Engel II | 8.3 | ||
| Engel III | 16.7 | ||
| Engel IV | 0.0 |
ATL = anterior temporal lobectomy; TLE = temporal lobe epilepsy.
Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
Chi-squared test.
One patient reported an unknown duration of epilepsy (n = 35).