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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2012 Aug 20;53(9):1607–1617. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2012.03629.x

Table 1.

Summary of the presence of HFOs, resections, and surgical outcome

Surgical procedure
Pathology
No./total % Temporal ExtraT. Multilobar FCD TSC Other
Total No. patients identified 48
Total No. patients included in this study 44
Presence of ictal HFOs (*p = 0.001) 41/44 93
Complete HFOs resection 22/41 54
 Surgical outcome
  Seizure-free 18/22 82 6 5 7 12 5 1 (chronic inflammation)
  >90% 2/22 9 1 0 1 2 0 0
  >50% 2/22 9 0 2 0 0 2 0
  No improvement 0/22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Incomplete HFO resection 19/41 46
 Surgical outcome
  Seizure-free 4/19 21 0 2 2 3 1 0
  >90% 4/19 21 0 3 1 3 0 1 (subpial gliosis)
  >50% 6/19 32 2 2 2 6 0 0
  No improvement 5/19 26 1 1 3 5 0 0
No HFOs presence 3/44 7
 Surgical outcome
  Seizure-free 1/3 0 1 0 3 0 0
  >90% 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0
  >50% 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 0

HFOs, high-frequency oscillations; SOZ, seizure-onset zone; ExtraT., extratemporal; FCD, focal cortical dysplasia; TSC, tuberous sclerosis complex; >90%, >90% seizure reduction; >50%, >50% seizure reduction.

*

p-value: Fisher's exact test – two sided p-value.