Randomized Controlled Study of Surgery for Epilepsy

Abstract

Eighty patients with temporal lobe epilepsy were assigned at random to surgery (40 patients) or antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment only for one year (40 patients), and results were assessed by epileptologists without knowledge of treatment regimen, at the University of Western Ontario, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada.

Keywords

• antiepileptic drug
• epileptologists
• mesial temporal sclerosis