. 2015 Sep 18;9:458–466. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.09.006

Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the experimental groups.

Group analyses at the pre- and post-surgery sessions
	Good outcome	Poor outcome	Controls
N (females)	24 (9)	24 (11)	24 (9)
Seizure lateralization	14 left	13 left
Age at 1st MRI scan	41.1 (12.2)	42.2 (12.8)	41.1 (11.8)
Age at seizure onset	19.5 (14)	24.3 (12.9)
Type of surgery	ATL: 21	ATL: 16
	Laser ablation: 2	Laser ablation: 4
	Neocortical resection: 1	Neocortical resection: 4
MRI pathology	Normal MRI: 6	Normal MRI: 14
	MTS: 14	MTS: 6
	Other temporal pathology^a: 4	Other temporal pathology^a: 4
PET	Positive: 18	Positive: 20
	Negative: 2	Negative: 1
	Not available: 4	Not available: 3
Time interval between surgery and scan (days, m (std))	305 (195)	296 (208)
Time interval between the two scans (days, m (std))	400 (210)	441 (258)	429 (119)
Seizure type	CPS: 11	CPS: 12
	CPS + rare GS^b: 6	CPS + rare GS^b: 5
	CPS + GS^c: 7	CPS + GS^c: 7

Prediction analyses using the pre-surgical data
	Good outcome	Poor outcome
N (females)	34 (16)	27 (14)
Seizure lateralization	19 left	13 left
Age (m (std))	40.5 (12.4)	42.4 (13.7)
Type of surgery	ATL: 30	ATL: 20
	Laser ablation: 3	Laser ablation: 3
	Neocortical resection: 1	Neocortical resection: 4
MRI pathology	Normal MRI: 8	Normal MRI: 16
	MTS: 18	MTS: 7
	Other temporal pathology^a: 8	Other temporal pathology^a: 4
PET	Positive: 25 (74%)	Positive: 21 (78%)
	Negative: 3 (9%)	Negative: 3 (11%)
	Not available: 6 (17%)	Not available: 3 (11%)
Time interval between scan and surgery (days, m (std))	112 (156)	116 (152)
Seizure type	CPS: 17	CPS: 11
	CPS + rare GS^b: 8	CPS + rare GS^b: 6
	CPS + GS^c: 9	CPS + GS^c: 10

Low grade tumors (DNET, glioma, cavernoma), temporal dysplasia or general temporal atrophy. MTS: mesial temporal sclerosis.

CPS (primary type) with 5 or less generalized tonic–clonic seizure and/or secondarily generalized seizure.

CPS (primary type) with more than 5 generalized tonic–clonic seizure and/or secondarily generalized seizure in lifetime.