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A case report is made on a 29 year old male suffering from drug resistant epilepsy with a left temporal focus and normal neuroradiological findings. Instead of the conventional partial temporal resection, the focus was stereotactically irradiated in five fractions using a standard linear accelerator (6 MeV), to a total dose equivalent of 10 Gy in a single shot. Two months after the treatment the frequency of seizures decreased and the patient has been free of attacks since the seventh postirradiation month, up to 27 months by now, and in excellent condition. Noninvasive Stereotactic radiotherapy may turn out to be a rational way to eliminate an epileptic focus.
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Heikkinen, E.R., Heikkinen, M.I. & Sotaniemi, K. Stereotactic radiotherapy instead of conventional epilepsy surgery. Acta neurochir 119, 159–160 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01541801
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