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Epilepsy surgery has been carried out in Umea, Sweden for the last 6 years. Fifty-eight patients have been operated on for intractable partial epilepsy: 23 children (aged 1.4–16 years, mean 8.6 years) and 35 adults (aged 17–51 years, mean 33.4 years). Twenty-five patients were females and 33 males. Adults and children had suffered from epilepsy for an average of 60% of their lives. Upon admission the etiology among the children was unknown in 13%, perinatal in 13%, and postinflammatory in 23%. In the adults the causes were unknown in 37%, postinflammatory in 29%, posttraumatic in 11%, and paranatal in 9%.
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Silfvenius, H., Zetterlund, B. (1987). Recent Results from Epilepsy Surgery in Children and Adults. In: Wüllenweber, R., Klinger, M., Brock, M. (eds) Regulation of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Neurosurgical Treatment of Epilepsy Rehabilitation in Neurosurgery. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71793-2_36
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