Sperling 1992.
| Methods | Prospective case series | |
| Participants | 51 adults from 1 American centre with intractable temporal lobe epilepsy | |
| Interventions | Standard anterior temporal lobectomy. In the non‐dominant hemisphere, the resection line ran 5.0 to 5.5 cm from the temporal tip and 4.5 to 5.0 cm in the dominant hemisphere. The amygdala and 1.5 to 2.0 cm of the hippocampus were removed by suction in early participants and en bloc in later participants in the series | |
| Outcomes | Seizure outcome assessed by Engel class at least 21 months post surgery | |
| Notes | — | |