Table 1.
Clinical features of patients treated with resection surgery for medically intractable epilepsy
| Characteristics | Data |
|---|---|
| Number | 76 |
| Mean age, years | 30 ± 14 |
| Male | 37 |
| Mean duration of epilepsy, years | 14.8 ± 10.6 |
| MRI positive lesion | 70 |
| Dominance of surgical site | |
| Dominant | 23 |
| Non-dominant | 35 |
| Undetermined | 18 |
| Electrodes implantation cases | 28 |
| Location | |
| FLE | 15 |
| TLE | 51 |
| PLE | 3 |
| Multilobular | 7 |
| Type of surgery | |
| ATL | 30 |
| SAH | 10 |
| Focus resection | 36 |
| Pathological findings | |
| HS | 22 |
| Gliosis | 21 |
| Cortical dysplasia | 11 |
| Tumor | 15 |
| Vascular anomaly | 7 |
ATL: anterior temporal lobectomy, FLE: frontal lobe, HS: hippocampal sclerosis, MRI: magnetic resonance imaging, SAH: selective amygdalo-hippocampal, PLE: parietal lobe, TLE: temporal lobe.