• DOI:10.1111/j.1528-1157.1954.tb03151.x
• Corpus ID: 34157022

The Surgical Treatment of “Focal” Epilepsy: An Inquiry into Current Premises, Their Implementation and the Criteria Employed in Reporting Results

@article{Meyers1954TheST,
  title={The Surgical Treatment of “Focal” Epilepsy: An Inquiry into Current Premises, Their Implementation and the Criteria Employed in Reporting Results},
  author={Russell Meyers},
  journal={Epilepsia},
  year={1954},
  volume={C3}
}

• R. Meyers
• Published 1 November 1954
• Medicine
• Epilepsia

The purpose of this paper is three-fold: ( 1 ) to record the generally disappointing character of results obtained in the author’s series of cases of “focal” epilepsy subjected during a fifteen year period to extirpation of cortical regions regarded as epileptogenous zones; (2 ) to inquire into the validity of certain current premises upon which the rationale of such operations appears to rest, with a view to pointing up some theoretic and practical reasons responsible for surgical failures; and (3) to examine the circumstances under which the terms “cured”, “arrested“, “controlled”, “improved“, “successful”, etc., as generally employed in the evaluation of clinical results, may properly be applied in future reports.