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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2007 Jul 21;48(12):2241–2252. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01211.x

Table 4.

Other variables: lesion size, seizure outcome, medications, pathology

Variable Unimpaired participants (n = 7) Impaired participants (n = 16)
Lesion size: range of anterior-posterior resection 3–5.5 cm (6/7 patients had resections ranging between 3 and 4.5 cm) 1.5–4.5 cm (8/16 patients had resections ranging between 3 and 4 cm
Postoperative seizure status Engel Class I achieved in 6 patients (85.7%) Engel Class I achieved in 13 patients (86.7%)
Medications: number of antiepileptic drugs 0 (1 patient), 1 (3 patients), 2 (1 patient), 3 (2 patients) 0 (1 patient), 1 (7 patients), 2 (7 patients)
Pathology of resected material Mesial temporal/hippocampal sclerosis (4 patients); possible cyst (1 patient); atrophy (1 patient); no identifiable pathology (1 patient) Mesial temporal/hippocampal sclerosis (12 patients); cortical neuronal dysplasia (1 patient); white matter gliosis (1 patient); no identifiable pathology (1 patient)

For postoperative seizure status, medications, and pathology, data were available for 15 of the 16 patients in the Impaired group, and for all 7 of the Unimpaired patients.