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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosurgery. 2014 Feb;74(2):182–195. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000241

Table 5.

Seizure outcome for non-palliative cases (n=48), stratified by etiology, surgical history, and hemispherectomy technique.

n Engel P*
I (%) II (%) III (%) IV (%)
Total 48 40 (83) 4 (8) 3 (6) 1 (2)
Etiology .67
 Infarct 24 22 (92) 1 (8) 1 (4)
 MCD 12 10 (83) 1 (8) 1 (8)
 Rasmussen’s 7 4 (57) 2 (14) 1 (14)
 Sturge-Weber 2 2 (100)
 Trauma 1 1 (100)
 HHE syndrome 1 1 (100)
 Tumor/radiation 1 1 (100)
Prior resective surgery .005
 None 36 33 (92) 1 (3) 2 (6)
 Non-hemispherectomy resection 6 5 (83) 1 (17)
 Previous hemispherectomy 6 2 (33) 2 (33) 1 (17) 1 (17)
  Pair-wise comparisons Previous hemispherectomy vs. None
Previous hemispherectomy vs. Non-hemi resect/disconnect
Non-hemi resection vs. None
.006
.15
1.0
Hemispherectomy technique .005
 MLH 42 37 (88) 3 (7) 2 (5)
 Rasmussen’s functional 2 2 (100)
 Anatomic 4 1 (25) 1 (25) 1 (25) 1 (25)
  Pair-wise comparisons Anatomic vs. MLH
Anatomic vs. Rasmussen’s functional
Rasmussen’s functional vs. MLH
.004
.33
1.0
*

Exact Mantel-Haenszel test, exact test for pairwise comparisons