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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002;73:470 doi:10.1136/jnnp.73.5.470
  • Temporal lobe epilepsy
  • Editorial commentary

Surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy

  1. S F Berkovic
  1. S F Berkovich, Director, Epilepsy Research Institute, level 1, Neurosciences Building, Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre, Banksia Street, West Heidelberg, Victoria 3081, Australia
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor S F Berkovich;
 s.berkovic{at}unimelb.edu.au

    It is important that presurgical evaluation of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy is carried out by multidisciplinary teams

    The paper published in this issue by Jutila et al (this issue, pp 486–94) adds to the literature regarding surgical treatment of temporal lobe epilepsy.1 This paper presents results from a national centre for adults in Finland. The strength of this report is that it has long term follow up from a relatively defined population. The benefit of temporal …

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