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Long-term health-related quality of life in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy after anterior temporal lobectomy Volume 17, issue 2, June 2015

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1 Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital
2 Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University
3 Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital
4 Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
* Correspondence: Hsiang-Yu Yu Department of Neurology, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, No. 201, Sec. 2 Shih-Pai Rd, Taipei, Taiwan

Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is one of the most common drug-resistant epilepsies among adults. Anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) is an effective treatment for patients suffering from drug-resistant TLE. In addition to the achievement of seizure freedom, an improvement in the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is another goal of epilepsy surgery. After the development of tools to measure epilepsy-specific HRQOL in the 1990s, HRQOL has become one of the most important outcome assessments for epilepsy [...]