Table 1.
Demographical and longitudinal data
| Temporal lobe surgery group |
Non-surgical control (n = 11) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Left (n = 25) | Right (n = 17) | ||||||
| Gender (M/F) | 11/14 | 10/7 | 4/7 | ||||
| Lesion type (HS/DNT) | 17/8 | 9/8 | - | ||||
| Baseline data available | Wechsler IQ scales | 24 | 15 | 11 | |||
| WMS-R | 23 | 11 | 8 | ||||
| CAVLT | 14 | 11 | 7 | ||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Age at (years) | Epilepsy onset | 3.6 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| Surgery | 13.0 | 3.2 | 13.8 | 2.7 | - | - | |
| Final assessment | 23.2 | 3.8 | 21.9 | 3.8 | 20.8 | 3.1 | |
| FSIQ | Baseline | 81.1 | 21.3 | 84.3 | 17.7 | 77.1 | 18.3 |
| Final assessment | 90.2 | 20.2 | 86.1 | 20.7 | 78.5 | 16.5 | |
| Resection volume (cm3) | 15.2 | 5.1 | 16.3 | 8.6 | - | - | |
HS = hippocampal sclerosis; resection volume = post-surgical resection cavity volume.
Preoperative Wechsler IQ scales: n = 2 WPPSI-R UK, n = 3 WISC-R UK, n = 41 WISC-III UK, n = 2 WAIS-R UK, n = 2 WAIS-III UK.
CAVLT: pre-operative CAVLT in n = 4 and CAVLT-II in n = 28.