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JOHN R. GREEN, MD; DAVID G. SCHEETZ, MD

Arch Neurol. 1964;10(2):135-148.

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The purpose of this presentation is to appraise the results of our attempts to rehabilitate 78 disabled and economically dependent patients by means of extirpation of a variety of epileptogenic lesions of the temporal lobe. These patients were treated either on our private service or at the Arizona State Hospital in Phoenix between July, 1948, and July, 1961. In each instance a "seizure" was the presenting complaint. The patients usually had varying degrees of psychiatric disability, including psychotic states occasionally, in relation to their seizures.

Analysis of Temporal Lobe Surgery (1948-1961)

From a total in excess of 2,500 patients who were examined because of epilepsy at the Arizona State Hospital, Seizure Clinic of St. Joseph's Hospital, and on the private service as inpatients or outpatients, 78 (3.1%) were treated by means of temporal lobe surgery and 43 patients were treated by excision of frontal, parietal, or occipital lesions (1.9%), a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PHOENIX, ARIZ

Chairman, Division of Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital, and Neurosurgical Consultant, Arizona State Hospital (Dr. Green); Assistant Resident, Divsion of Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital (Dr. Scheetz).

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Submitted for publication Sept 20, 1963; accepted Oct 18.

Presented to the Sixteenth Clinical Session of the American Medical Association, Los Angeles, Nov 27, 1962.

Stereotactically implanted electrodes have been recently reported to offer additional assistance in EEG localization (Crandall, P. H.; Walter, R. D.; and Rand, R. W.: Clinical Applications of Studies on Stereotactically Implanted Electrodes in Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy, J Neurosurg 20:827-840, 1963).

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