Postoperative Quality of Life Outcome and Employment in Patients Undergoing Resection of Epileptogenic Lesions Detected by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

• Published in: Neurologia medico-chirurgica Vol. 49; no. 7; pp. 281 - 286
• Main Authors: MORITAKE, Kouzo, MIKUNI, Nobuhiro, AKIYAMA, Yasuhiko, NAGAI, Hidemasa, MARUYAMA, Nobuyuki, TAKADA, Daikei, DAISU, Mitsuhiro, NAGASAKO, Noriko, HASHIMOTO, Nobuo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Japan The Japan Neurosurgical Society 2009; THE JAPAN NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETY
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age of Onset; Cerebral Cortex - pathology; Cerebral Cortex - surgery; Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; Employment; Epilepsy - complications; Epilepsy - pathology; Epilepsy - psychology; Epilepsy - surgery; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Functional Laterality; Humans; long-term outcome; magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Middle Aged; Neurosurgery - instrumentation; Neurosurgery - methods; quality of life; Quality of Life - psychology; Retrospective Studies; Seizures - complications; Seizures - pathology; Seizures - prevention & control; Seizures - psychology; Temporal Lobe - pathology; Temporal Lobe - surgery; Treatment Outcome; Young Adult

The long-term postoperative improvement of quality of life (QOL) and employment were investigated in patients undergoing resection of epileptogenic lesions detected by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to identify the associated preoperative factors. Thirty of 47 patients who underwent lesionectomy be...