Update on surgical treatment of the epilepsies: summary of the second international palm desert conference on the surgical treatment of the epilepsies (1992)

J Engel Jr - Neurology, 1993 - AAN Enterprises
Original research reported by the author was supported in part by grants NS-02808, NS-
15654, and GM-24839 from the National Institutes of Health, and contract DE-AC03-76 …

Early childhood prolonged febrile convulsions, atrophy and sclerosis of mesial structures, and temporal lobe epilepsy: an MRI volumetric study

F Cendes, F Andermann, F Dubeau, P Gloor, A Evans… - Neurology, 1993 - AAN Enterprises
We performed MRI volumetric measurements of the amygdala (AM) and hippocampal
formation (HF) in a group of 43 patients with temporal lobe epilepsy not controlled by optimal …

MRI hippocampal volumes and memory function before and after temporal lobectomy

MR Trenerry, CR Jack Jr, RJ Ivnik, FW Sharbrough… - Neurology, 1993 - AAN Enterprises
We investigated the relationship between preoperative MRI hippocampal volumes and
clinical neuropsychological memory test data obtained before and after temporal lobectomy …

Atrophy of mesial structures in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy: cause or consequence of repeated seizures?

F Cendes, F Andermann, P Gloor… - Annals of Neurology …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
We studied 70 epileptic patients by using magnetic resonance imaging volumetric
measurements of amygdala (AM) and hippocampal formation (HF). Fifty patients presented …

Epilepsy: surgery and imaging.

CR Jack Jr - Radiology, 1993 - pubs.rsna.org
T HE purpose of this article is to provide a review of the history, clas-sification, epidemiology,
imaging, and some aspects of surgical management of epilepsy. While epilepsy is …

Predictive value of magnetic resonance imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery

R Kuzniecky, S Burgard, E Faught… - Archives of …, 1993 - jamanetwork.com
• The predictive value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was assessed by a prospective
study of 34 patients selected for surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy. The MRIs were …

Diagnosis of medial temporal lobe seizure onset: relative specificity and sensitivity of quantitative MRI

SS Spencer, G McCarthy, DD Spencer - Neurology, 1993 - AAN Enterprises
Measurement of hippocampal volume by MRI is a new technique with potential value in the
localization of epileptic regions, but whether reduced hippocampal volume predicts the …

Measurement of whole temporal lobe and hippocampus for MR volumetry: normative data

S Bhatia, SY Bookheimer, WD Gaillard, WH Theodore - Neurology, 1993 - AAN Enterprises
We measured the volumes of the entire length of temporal lobe and hippocampal formation
from coronal images in 29 healthy young adults to take into account normal side-to-side …

Temporal lobe hypometabolism on PET: predictor of seizure control after temporal lobectomy

RA Radtke, MW Hanson, JM Hoffman, BJ Crain… - Neurology, 1993 - AAN Enterprises
To investigate the relationship of temporal lobe hypometabolism demonstrated on PET to
surgical outcome and underlying pathology, we reviewed 30 consecutive epilepsy patients …

Operative strategy in patients with MRI-identified dual pathology and temporal lobe epilepsy

GD Cascino, CR Jack Jr, JE Parisi, FW Sharbrough… - Epilepsy research, 1993 - Elsevier
We performed a prospective study using preoperative magnetic resonance imaging to
identify hippocampal formation atrophy in 15 consecutive patients with intractable partial …