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={R. Meyers}, journal={Epilepsia}, year={1954}, volume={C3} }
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… CONTINUE READING
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