Purpose: There is still controversy in deciding which patients with frontal lobe epilepsy (FLE)
should undergo resective surgery, even though it is a well‐established therapy. The aim of …

Object Previous comparisons of standard temporal lobectomy (STL) and selective
amygdalohippocampectomy (SelAH) have been limited by inadequate long-term follow-up, variable …

Intractable occipital lobe epilepsy remains a surgical challenge. Clinical characteristics of
14 patients were analyzed. Twelve patients had surgery, seven patients had visual auras (50%…

Ictal brain SPECT (IS) findings in neocortical epilepsy (patients without mesiotemporal sclerosis)
can be subtle. This study is aimed at assessing how the seizure focus identification was …

Objective We tested the hypothesis that buprenorphine-clonidine-dexamethasone (BCD)
extends perineural analgesia compared with plain bupivacaine (BPV) nerve blocks used for …

Many centers have reported that ictal single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
localizes regions of seizure onset with greater sensitivity and specificity than interictal …

A 31-year-old man with medication-refractory seizures in the context of right mesial temporal
lobe sclerosis and right occipital encephalomalacia is described. He experienced the onset …

Objective To compare pain outcome reports of patients undergoing hip or knee replacement
who received single-injection nerve/plexus blocks with plain bupivacaine (BPV) with those …

… Questions or comments about this article may be directed to: Karen L. Gilbert, MS RN ARNP,
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756. She …

The implementation of the clinical trial reported in the accompanying article by Williams et al.[1]
encountered several complications related to regulatory processes and the changing …