Epilepsy surgery in drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy associated with neuronal antibodies

M Carreņo, CG Bien, AA Asadi-Pooya, M Sperling… - Epilepsy research, 2017 - Elsevier
We assessed the outcome of patients with drug resistant epilepsy and neuronal antibodies
who underwent epilepsy surgery. Retrospective study, information collected with a
questionnaire sent to epilepsy surgery centers. Thirteen patients identified, with antibodies
to GAD (8), Ma2 (2), Hu (1), LGI1 (1) or CASPR2 (1). Mean age at seizure onset: 23 years.
Five patients had an encephalitic phase. Three had testicular tumors and five had
autoimmune diseases. All had drug resistant temporal lobe epilepsy (median: 20 …