Table 2.
Characteristics of temporal patients
| Pt. | Age at first seizure (yrs) | Age at surgery (yrs) | Time since surgery (yrs) | Pre-surgery MRI | Resection |
Engel et al.’s (1993) classification of outcome | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Side | Type | ||||||
| T1 | 17 | 21 | 7.0 | R HS | R | SAH | Class I |
| T2 | 18 | 25 | 7.1 | L HA | R | SAH | Class II |
| T3 | 5 | 20 | 7.7 | L HS | L | SAH | Class I |
| T4 | 30 | 47 | 2.8 | L HS | L | SAH | Class I |
| T5 | 19 | 34 | 4.4 | Normal | L | SAH | Class I |
| T6 | 41 | 52 | 1.2 | L HS | L | ATL | Class I |
| T7 | 1 | 32 | 0.3 | R HA | R | ATL | Class I |
| T8 | 2 | 43 | 1.5 | R HA | R | SAH | Class I |
| T9 | 10 | 19 | 2.7 | R HS | R | SAH | Class I |
| T10 | 11 | 43 | 7.9 | R HS | R | SAH | Class I |
| T11 | 1 | 47 | 2.0 | L HA, T1C | L | ATL | Class I |
| T12 | 26 | 32 | 2.7 | R HS | R | SAH | Class I |
| T13 | 5 | 18 | 10.8 | L HS | L | SAH | Class I |
ATL, anterior temporal lobectomy; HA, hippocampal atrophy; HS, hippocampal sclerosis; L, left; R, right; SAH, selective amygdalohippocampectomy; T1C, type 1 Chiari malformation.