Factors Predictive of Seizure Outcome in New-Onset Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Abstract

A community-based cohort of 77 children with new-onset temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) were followed prospectively and reviewed at 7 and 14 years after seizure onset, and clinical, EEG, and neuroimaging findings and seizure outcome are reported from the Royal Children's Hospital and University of Melbourne, Australia, and Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

Keywords

• temporal lobe epilepsy
• hippocampal sclerosis
• spontaneous remission