Surgical treatment of compound temporal lobe epilepsy

Aim: In order to accumulate knowledge of compound temporal lobe epilepsy, the operation experience with 40 cases of compound temporal lobe intractable epilepsy was summed up.Methods: Selecting 40 cases patients (whose epileptogenic focus sites on temporal and frontal 27 cases, temporal and parietal 6 cases, temporal and occipital 3 cases, temporal, frontal and parietal 4 cases). All patients were examined with intraoperative electrocorticograpy (ECoG), and front temporal lobe were resected.Results: Follow-up patients from six months to three years . The follow up showed healing outcome in 23 cases, good result in 10 cases, unsatisfactory outcome in 5 cases, no improvement in 2 cases, slight paresis 6 cases and no death case. Conclusion:It is more effective that temporal lobe resection add other lobe management.