Stereotaxic treatment of frontal-lobe and centrencephalic epilepsy

Abstract

✓ The authors report a series of selected epileptic patients treated by stereotaxic lesions. The treatment was successful in patients with focal motor epilepsy. Stereotaxic lesions made in patients with centrencephalic electroencephalographic abnormalities were only successful if there was also clinical evidence of a frontal focus. The significance of these results is discussed, and a target is described that may be useful in certain cases with clinical evidence of a frontal lobe focus.