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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg. 2015 Sep 25;124(4):929–937. doi: 10.3171/2014.9.JNS131422

TABLE 1.

Summary of patient demographic and clinical characteristics

VFL
Case No. Sex Age (yrs)* Ep Dur (yrs) BL Postop Cognitive Outcome Path Sz Freq/Mo Sz Type EC‡ AEDs
1 M 26 21 24 32 Good Atrophy 1 CPS, SPS, CPS/G A Levetiracetam, lamotrigine
2 M 28 12 19 12 Poor Enlarge (horn) 2 CPS, CPS/G A Levetiracetam, oxcarbazepine
3 F 41 36 11 3 Poor MTS 16 CPS, SPS C Levetiracetam, valproic acid, phenobarbital
4 M 30 11 21 20 Good MTS 2 CPS, GTC A Levetiracetam
5 F 50 31 21 13 Poor Atrophy 7 CPS, CPS/G C Phenytoin
6 M 47 42 21 11 Poor Hippo atrophy 15 CPS A Carbamazepine, irbesartan
7 F 42 4 18 8 Poor MTS 1 CPS A Lamotrigine, methimazole
8 F 32 8 17 18 Good MTS 1 CPS, CPS/G C Lamotrigine, carbamazepine
9 F 53 40 13 18 Good MTS 5 CPS, GTC A Lamotrigine, carbamazepine
10 M 65 45 16 20 Good Hippo atrophy 7 CPS A Topiramate, olanzapine
11 F 39 26 16 21 Good Hippo atrophy 1 CPS A Valproic acid, phenobarbital, carbamazepine
12 M 60 56 18 11 Poor MTS 2 CPS, SPS A Levetiracetam
13 F 52 32 23 17 Poor Enlarge (horn) 1 CPS, GTC A Lamotrigine, carbamazepine
14 F 41 37 26 25 Good MTS 2 CPS, GTC A Venlafaxine, lamotrigine, levetiracetam
15 F 26 5 14 17 Good Atrophy 20 CPS A Diazepam, levetiracetam, topiramate
Mean (SD) 42 (12) 27 (16) 18 (4) 16 (7) 5 (6)

AEDs = antiepileptic drugs; BL = baseline; CPS = complex partial seizures; CPS/G = complex partial seizures with secondary generalization; EC = postsurgical Engel Class I subscore; enlarge = enlargement; Ep Dur = epilepsy duration; GTC = generalized tonic-clonic seizures; Hippo = hippocampal; MTS = mesial temporal sclerosis; Path = temporal lobe pathology; SPS = simple partial seizures; Sz = seizure; VFL = verbal (semantic) fluency.

*

Age at baseline scan.

Based on RCI.