Patients' aims for epilepsy surgery: Desires beyond seizure freedom

Epilepsia

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 629-633

  Taylor, David C ^a,b   McMackin, Deirdre ^a   Staunton, Hugh ^a   Delanty, Norman ^a   Phillips, Jack ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b David Lewis Centre for Epilepsy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Patient aims; Quality of Life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EPILEPSY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEIZURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CAREGIVERS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMPLOYMENT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GOALS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035000325     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1528-1157.2001.34400.x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Penfield W, Steelman H. The treatment of focal epilepsy by cortical excision. Ann Surg 1947;126:740-62.
2. Taylor D, Falconer M. Clinical, socio-economic and psychological changes after temporal lobectomy for epilepsy. Br J Psychiatry 1968;114:1247-61.
3. Taylor D, Neville B, Cross J, et al. New measures of outcome needed for surgical treatment of epilepsy. Epilepsia 1997;38:625-30.
4. th International Cleveland/Bethel Meeting 1995 in Bielefeld and in New measures of Epilepsy surgery outcome in Children." In: Tuxhorn I, Holthausen H, Boenigk H, eds. Paediatric epilepsy syndromes and their surgical treatment. London: John Libbey, 1997.
5. Hardiman O, Burke T, Murphy S, et al. Microdysgenesis in resected temporal neocortex: incidence and clinical significance in focal epilepsy. Neurology 1988;38:1041-7.
6. Keogan M, McMackin D, Peng S, et al. Temporal neocorticectomy in the management of intractable epilepsy: long term outcome and predictive factors. Epilepsia 1992:33; 852-61.
7. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1994.
8. Vickrey B, Hayes R, Graber J, et al. A health related quality of life instrument for patients evaluated for epilepsy surgery. Med Care 1992;30:299-312.
9. Jacoby A. Epilepsy and the quality of everyday life: findings from a study of people with well controlled epilepsy. Soc Sci Med 1992; 43:657-66.
10. Jacoby A. Felt versus enacted stigma: a concept revisited. Soc Sci Med 1994;38:269-74.