Predicting outcome of epilepsy after meningioma resection.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgical excision is the standard treatment for intracranial meningiomas. Epilepsy is a major cause of morbidity in meningioma patients, but postoperative control of epilepsy is not achieved in a substantial fraction of patients. The purpose of this study was to define risk factors for postoperative epilepsy.

Methods

Patients treated for histologically confirmed intracranial meningioma at the University Hospital Zurich between 2000 and 2013 were retrospectively analyzed. Demographic, clinical, imaging, and electroencephalographic data were assessed. A binary regression model was applied to identify risk factors for postoperative epilepsy.

Results

Of the 779 patients analyzed, epileptic seizures occurred in 244 (31.3%) patients before surgery and in 204 (26.

SUBMITTER: Wirsching HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4896539 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature