Epilepsy surgery outcomes in temporal lobe epilepsy with a normal MRI

Epilepsia

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2053-2060

  Bell, Michael L ^a   Rao, Satish ^a   So, Elson L ^a   Trenerry, Max ^b   Kazemi, Noojan ^a   Matt Stead, S ^a   Cascino, Gregory ^a   Marsh, Richard ^b   Meyer, Fredric B ^b   Watson, Robert E ^b   Giannini, Caterina ^b   Worrell, Gregory A ^a,b  

^a Division of Epilepsy and Electroencephalography   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Epilepsy surgery; Nonlesional MRI; Partial seizures; Temporal lobe

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SELECTION; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69149101929     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2009.02079.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Altman DG 1991) Practical statistics for medical research. Chapman and Hall, London England.
2. Berkovic SF, McIntosh AM, Kalnins RM, Jackson GD, Fabinyi GC, Brazenor GA, Bladin PF, Hopper JL 1995) Preoperative MRI predicts outcome of temporal lobectomy: an actuarial analysis. Neurology 45 : 1358 1363.
3. Briellmann RS, Wellard RM, Jackson GD 2005) Seizure-associated Abnormalities in Epilepsy: Evidence from MR Imaging. Epilepsia 46 : 760 766.
4. Carne RP, O'Brien TJ, Kilpatrick CJ, MacGregor LR, Hicks RJ, Murphy MA, Bowden SC, Kaye AH, Cook MJ 2004) MRI-negative PET-positive temporal lobe epilepsy: a distinct surgically remediable syndrome. Brain 127 (Pt.10 2276 2285.
5. Cascino GD 2004) Surgical treatment for epilepsy. Epilepsy Res 60 : 179 186.
6. Cohen-Gadol AA, Britton JW, Worrell GA, Meyer FB 2004) Transient cortical abnormalities on magnetic resonance imaging after status epilepticus: case report. Surg Neurol 61 : 479 482 discussion 482.
7. Cohen-Gadol AA, Bradley CC, Williamson A, Kim JH, Westerveld M, Duckrow RB, Spencer DD 2005) Normal magnetic resonance imaging and medial temporal lobe epilepsy: the clinical syndrome of paradoxical temporal lobe epilepsy. J Neurosurg 102 : 902 909.
8. Cohen-Gadol AA, Wilhelmi BG, Collignon F, White JB, Britton JW, Cambier DM, Christianson TJ, Marsh WR, Meyer FB, Cascino GD 2006) Long-term outcome of epilepsy surgery among 399 patients with non-lesional seizure foci including mesial temporal lobe sclerosis. J Neurosurg 104 : 513 524.
9. Ebersole JS, Pacia SV 1996) Localization of temporal lobe foci by ictal EEG patterns. Epilepsia 37 : 386 399.
10. Hennessy MJ, Elwes RD, Rabe-Hesketh S, Binnie CD, Polkey CE 2001) Prognostic factors in the surgical treatment of medically intractable epilepsy associated with mesial temporal sclerosis. Acta Neurol Scand 103 : 344 350. (Pubitemid 32531134)
11. Holmes MD, Born DE, Kutsy RL, Wilensky AJ, Ojemann GA, Ojemann LM 2000) Outcome after surgery in patients with refractory temporal lobe epilepsy and normal MRI. Seizure 9 : 407 411.
12. Ivnik RJ, Sharbrough FW, Laws ER Jr. 1988) Anterior temporal lobectomy for the control of partial complex seizures: information for counseling patients. Mayo Clinic Proc 63 : 783 793.
13. Jack CR Jr. 1996) Magnetic resonance imaging in epilepsy. Mayo Clin Proc 71 : 695 711.
14. Jack CR Jr., Rydberg CH, Krecke KN, Trenerry MR, Parisi JE, Rydberg JN, Cascino GD, Riederer SJ 1996) Mesial temporal sclerosis: diagnosis with fluid-attenuated inversion-recovery versus spin-echo MR imaging.[see comment]. Radiology 199 : 367 373.
15. Jeha LE, Najm IM, Bingaman WE, Khandwala F, Widdess-Walsh P, Morris HH, Dinner DS, Nair D, Foldvary-Schaeffer N, Prayson RA, Comair Y, O'Brien R, Bulacio J, Gupta A, Luders HO 2006) Predictors of outcome after temporal lobectomy for the treatment of intractable epilepsy. Neurology 66 : 1938 1940.
16. McIntosh AM, Kalnins RM, Mitchell LA, Fabinyi GC, Briellmann RS, Berkovic SF 2004) Temporal lobectomy: long-term seizure outcome, late recurrence and risks for seizure recurrence. Brain 127 : 2018 2030.
17. O'Brien TJ, So EL, Mullan BP, Hauser MF, Brinkmann BH, Bohnen NI, Hanson D, Cascino GD, Jack CR Jr., Sharbrough FW 1998) Subtraction ictal SPECT co-registered to MRI improves clinical usefulness of SPECT in localizing the surgical seizure focus. Neurology 50 : 445 454.
18. Radhakrishnan K, So EL, Silbert PL, Jack CR Jr., Cascino GD, Sharbrough FW, O'Brien PC 1998) Predictors of outcome of anterior temporal lobectomy for intractable epilepsy: a multivariate study. Neurology 51 : 465 471. (Pubitemid 28406323)
19. Rausch R, Kraemer S, Pietras CJ, Le M, Vickrey BG, Passaro EA 2003) Early and late cognitive changes following temporal lobe surgery for epilepsy. Neurology 60 : 951 959.
20. Sander JW, Hart YM, Johnson AL, Shorvon SD 1990) National General Practice Study of Epilepsy: newly diagnosed epileptic seizures in a general population. Lancet 336 : 1267 1271.
21. Semah F, Picot MC, Adam C, Broglin D, Arzimanoglou A, Bazin B, Cavalcanti D, Baulac M 1998) Is the underlying cause of epilepsy a major prognostic factor for recurrence? Neurology 51 : 1256 1262.
22. Sharbrough F, Chatrian GE, Lesser RP, Luders H, Nuwer M, Pictor TM 1991) America EEG Society: guidelines for standard electrode position nomenclature. J Clin Neurophysiol 8 : 200 202.
23. Stroup E, Langfitt J, Berg M, McDermott M, Pilcher W, Como P 2003) Predicting verbal memory decline following anterior temporal lobectomy. Neurology 60 : 1266 1273.
24. Sylaja PN, Radhakrishnan K, Kesavadas C, Sarma PS 2004) Seizure outcome after anterior temporal lobectomy and its predictors in patients with apparent temporal lobe epilepsy and normal MRI. Epilepsia 45 : 803 808.
25. Theodore WH, Sato S, Kufta CV, Gaillard WD, Kelley K 1997) FDG-positron emission tomography and invasive EEG: seizure focus detection and surgical outcome. Epilepsia 38 : 81 86.
26. Trenerry MR, Jack CR Jr., Ivnik RJ, Sharbrough FW, Cascino GD, Hirschorn KA, Marsh WR, Meyer WR, Meyer FB 1993) MRI Hippocampal volumes and memory function before and after temporal lobectomy. Neurology 43 : 1800 1805.
27. Trenerry MR, Jack CR Jr., Cascino GD, Sharbrough FW, So EL 1996) Bilateral magnetic resonance imaging-determined hippocampal atrophy and verbal memory before and after temporal lobectomy. Epilepsia 37 : 526 533.
28. Trenerry MR, Loring DW 2005) The Intracarotid amobarbital procedure. In Wyllie E, Gupta A, Lachhwani DK (Eds) The treatment of epilepsy: principles & practice, 4th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2005, pp. 1000 1005.
29. Wiebe S, Blume WT, Girvin JP, Eliasziw M, Effectiveness, Efficiency of Surgery for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Study G 2001) A randomized, controlled trial of surgery for temporal-lobe epilepsy. N Engl J Med 345 : 311 318.
30. Wieser HG, Blume WT, Fish D, Goldensohn E, Hufnagel A, King D, Sperling MR, Luders H 2001) ILAE Commission Report. Proposal for a new classification of outcome with respect to epileptic seizures following epilepsy surgery. Epilepsia 42 : 282 286.