Table 1.
Summary of clinical and surgical data.
| No. | Age (yr), sex, side | Duration (yr) | Possible precipitating event | Seizure type | Seizure frequency (times/week) | Status epilepsy | Surgery removal area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5, F, R | 2 | Unknown | PC, gen | 0.5–0.75 | No | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 2 | 25, M, R | 1 | Pilocytic astrocytoma | PC | 1.5–14 | No | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 3 | 6, M, R | 6 | Cyst | PC, gen | 1 | No | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 4 | 41, F, L | 4 | Unknown | PC, gen | 2–2.5 | No | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 5 | 18, M, R | 9 | Birth problem | PC, gen | 7–14 | No | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 6 | 42, M, L | 18 | High fever | PC, gen | 7–35 | No | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 7 | 52, M, L | 20 | Cyst | PC | 1–2 | No | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 8 | 24, M, R | 11 | Meningioma | PC, gen | 1 | Yes | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 9 | 44, M, R | 4 | Hemangioma | PC, gen | 3–14 | No | Anterior temporal lobe |
| 10 | 23, F, R | 7 | Unknown | PC, gen | 0.5–1 | No | Anterior portion of the medial and inferior frontal gyrus |
| 11 | 22, F, R | 20 | Encephalitis | PC | 14–35 | Yes | Anterior temporal lobe |
| Non-epilepsy control | Disease type and location | Surgery removal area | |||||
| 12 | 57, F, R | 10 | Neurilemmoma in the middle cranial fossa | Anterior temporal lobe | |||
| 13 | 79, M, L | 2 h | 17pcLacunar infarction of bilateral basal ganglia and right thalamus Brain hemorrhage of left thalamus | Junction area of temporal, parietal and occipital lobe | |||
| 14 | 52, M, R | 0.5 | 17pcGlioma in the junction area of parietal and occipital lobe and in the corpus callosum | Junction area of parietal and occipital lobe | |||
| 15 | 45, M, L | 5 | Recurrent tumor in the frontal lobe | Frontal lobe | |||
M, male; F, female; R, right; L, left; PC, partial complex; PC, gen, partial complex, sometimes secondarily generalized.
Status epilepsy, epileptic attack lasting for more than 30 min (including the duration of consciousness loss if applicable).