Surgical Techniques for the Treatment of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Table 2

Summary of the surgical outcome from selected studies.

Author	Year of publication	Follow-up period (years)	Number of patients	Outcome measure	Type of surgery	Percentage of best outcome
Blume and Girvin [19]	1997	5	100	2-year seizure freedom	ATL	58%
Spencer et al. [20]	2005	5	339	Seizure freedom ± auras for 2 years	AMTL	69%
Jeong et al. [21]	2005	5	227	Engel I	ATL	75%
Urbach et al. [22]	2004	2	209	Engel IA	SAH	73%
Wiebe et al. [14]	2001	1	80	Freedom from seizures that impair awareness	ATL	58%
Mihara et al. [23]	1996	5	132	Engel I	ATL or SAH	70%
Zentner et al. [24]	1995	3	178	Engel I	ATL or SAH	62%
Sperling et al. [25]	1996	5	89	Engel I	ATL	70%
Wieser et al. [26]	2001	7	369	Engel I	SAH	62% at 5-year follow-up
McIntosh et al. [27]	2004	10	325	Engel I	ATL	41%
Paglioli et al. [28]	2004	5	135	Engel IA	ATL or SAH	74% at 5-year follow-up

ATL: anterior temporal lobectomy, AMTL: anteromedial temporal lobectomy, SAH: selective amygdalohippocampectomy, Engel: Engel’s classification for seizure outcome after surgery.