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Selective Amygdalohippocampectomy: Indications and Follow-up = L'amygdalo-hippocampectomie sélective: Indications et suivi

Wieser, Heinz Gregor

In: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques, 1991, vol. 18, no. S4, p. 617-627

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    Title
    • Selective Amygdalohippocampectomy: Indications and Follow-up
    Translated Title ()
    • L'amygdalo-hippocampectomie sélective: Indications et suivi
    Author
    • Wieser, Heinz Gregor. Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    Language
    • English
    Published in
    • Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques, 1991, vol. 18, no. S4, p. 617-627. Cambridge University Press
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    Classification
    • Health
    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:300471
    Summary
    Selective amygdalohippocampectomy (AHE) offers a real chance of cure only in patients with welldefined, precisely localized "epileptogenic area”, i.e. seizure focus. Therefore, a priori only a small proportion of all patients with epilepsy can meet the criteria for selective surgical interventions. From the evidence in patients meeting the criteria for AHE, we conclude that this technique is to be preferred to the "standard” anterior temporal lobectomy and represents a more selective but still effective surgical treatment of epilepsy