AMYGDALA ATROPHY AND SEIZURE OUTCOME AFTER TEMPORAL-LOBE EPILEPSY SURGERY

Authors
HO SS CONSALVO D GILLIAM F FAUGHT E BILIR E MORAWETZ R KUZNIECKY RI
Citation
Ss. Ho et al., AMYGDALA ATROPHY AND SEIZURE OUTCOME AFTER TEMPORAL-LOBE EPILEPSY SURGERY, Neurology, 51(5), 1998, pp. 1502-1504
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Neurology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00283878
Volume
51
Issue
5
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1502 - 1504
Database
ISI
SICI code
0028-3878(1998)51:5<1502:AAASOA>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Surgical outcome in hippocampal atrophy (n = 44) and amygdalohippocamp al atrophy (n = 14) were compared. Hippocampal atrophy had better seiz ure-free outcome than amygdalohippocampal atrophy (80% versus 50%, p = 0.043). Severity of hippocampal atrophy correlated with duration of e pilepsy in patients with hippocampal atrophy (r = 0.4, p = 0.007), but not in those with amygdalohippocampal atrophy, suggesting that these two groups may have a different pathogenesis.