Long-term outcome of lesional posterior cortical epilepsy surgery in adults

Alaa Eldin Elsharkawy (1) , Nasser M F El-Ghandour (2) , Heinz Pannek (3) , Falk Oppel (3) , Friedrich G Woermann (4) , Mohamed Nayel (2) , Matthias Hoppe (1) , Reinhard Schulz (1) , Ahmed Issa (2) , Alois Ebner (1)

1 Department of Presurgical Evaluation, Bethel Epilepsy Centre
2 Neurosurgical Department, Cairo University, Cairo
3 Neurosurgical Department, Bethel Epilepsy Centre
4 MRI Unit, Bethel Epilepsy Centre

The aim of this study was to evaluate the short and long-term seizure outcome and to find predictors of outcome after epilepsy surgery in lesional posterior cortical epilepsies (PCEs).

Mots clés: EPILEPSY; SURGERY; OBSTETRICS

Alaa Eldin Elsharkawy, Nasser M F El-Ghandour, Heinz Pannek, Falk Oppel, Friedrich G Woermann, et al.. Long-term outcome of lesional posterior cortical epilepsy surgery in adults. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 2009, 80 (7), pp.773. ⟨10.1136/jnnp.2008.164145⟩. ⟨hal-00552732⟩