In patients with medically-refractory left temporal epilepsy, and left dominant language and memory, how should you approach surgical intervention?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Dominant temporal lobe epilepsies are often not candidates for hippocampal ablation or anterior temporal lobectomy because the risk for memory decline is deemed to be too high. Although having left temporal lobe epilepsy does not rule out the possibility of a resective/ablative surgery, in your part...